TY  - GEN
T1  - Becoming transnational youth workers : independent Mexican teenage migrants and pathways of survival and social mobility
T2  - Latinidad.
A1  - Martínez, Isabel, 1979-
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1105200193
AB  - 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.
OP  - 263
CN  - HD8081.M6 M35 2019eb
SN  - 9780813589831
SN  - 0813589835
SN  - 9780813589800
SN  - 0813589800
SN  - 9780813589794
SN  - 0813589797
KW  - Foreign workers : United States.
KW  - Foreign workers : Mexico.
KW  - Teenage immigrants : United States.
KW  - Teenage immigrants : Mexico.
KW  - Mexican-American Border Region : History.
KW  - Adolescents immigrants : États-Unis.
KW  - Adolescents immigrants : Mexique.
KW  - Région frontalière mexicano-américaine : Histoire.
KW  - Travailleurs étrangers : États-Unis.
KW  - Travailleurs étrangers : Mexique.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - Foreign workers
KW  - Teenage immigrants
KW  - Mexico
KW  - North America : Mexican-American Border Region
KW  - United States
KW  - immigrant, mexican immigrant, central america, homeland, migrant, teenage migrant, teenage immigrant, NYC, new york city, poverty, NAFTA, north american free trade agreement, free trade agreement, mexican teen, social mobility, economic inequality, inequality.
KW  - History
ER  -