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Becoming Transnational Youth Workers Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility / Isabel Martinez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martínez, Isabel, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Latinidad.
- Latinidad
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage immigrants.
- Foreign workers.
- Teenage immigrants--Mexico.
- Teenage immigrants--United States.
- Foreign workers--Mexico.
- Foreign workers--United States.
- United States.
- North America--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Mexico.
- Mexican-American Border Region--History.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 263 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Becoming Transnational Youth Workers contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a previously under-documented cross-section of Mexican immigrant youth. Preceding the latest wave of Central American children and teenagers now fleeing violence in their homelands, Isabel Martinez examines a group of unaccompanied Mexican teenage minors who emigrated to New York City in the early 2000s. As one of the consequences of intractable poverty in their homeland, these emigrant youth exhibit levels of agency and competence not usually assigned to children and teenage minors, and disrupt mainstream notions of what practices are appropriate at their ages. Leaving school and family in Mexico and financially supporting not only themselves through their work in New York City, but also their families back home, these youths are independent teenage migrants who, upon migration, wish to assume or resume autonomy and agency rather than dependence. This book also explores community and family understandings about survival and social mobility in an era of extreme global economic inequality.
- Contents:
- In the shadows of skyscrapers and ivory towers
- "Giving my family a better future" : familism and interdependence across borders
- "We all come young" : the migration of Mexican independent teenage migrants
- Pushed or jumped? School going, school leaving, and school returning
- From campos to kitchens : becoming immigrant workers
- Between becoming and being adults.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813589817
- 0813589819
- 9780813589831
- 0813589835
- OCLC:
- 1105200193
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