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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Автор: Martínez, Isabel, 1979- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press [2019]
Серія:Latinidad.
Онлайн доступ:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvj7wm7m
Зміст:
  • 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.