TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martinez,Isabel
TI  - Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility 
T2  - Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
SN  - 9780813589794
U1  - 331.3/470973 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Foreign workers
KW  - Mexico
KW  - United States
KW  - Teenage immigrants
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
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
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; 1. In the Shadows of Skyscrapers and Ivory Towers --; 2. “Giving My Family a Better Future”: Familism and Interdependence across Borders --; 3. “We All Come Young”: The Migration of Mexican --; 4. Pushed or Jumped? School Going, School Leaving, and School Returning --; 5. From Campos to Kitchens: Becoming Immigrant Workers --; 6. Between Becoming and Being Adults --; 7. Conclusion --; Appendix: Considerations When Researching with Unauthorized and Independent Minors --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813589831?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813589831
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813589831/original
ER  -