Becoming transnational youth workers : independent Mexican teenage migrants and pathways of survival and social mobility /
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 exam...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press
[2019]
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| Serie: | Latinidad.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvj7wm7m |
Sommario:
- In the shadows of skyscrapers and ivory towers
- "Giving my family a better future" : familism and interdependence across borders
- "We all come little" : 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
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.