Title Becoming transnational youth workers : independent Mexican teenage migrants and pathways of survival and social mobility / Isabel Martinez

Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 263 pages) Series Latinidad Latinidad. Contents 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 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 Analysis 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Foreign workers -- United States Foreign workers -- Mexico Teenage immigrants -- United States Teenage immigrants -- Mexico SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Foreign workers Teenage immigrants SUBJECT Mexican-American Border Region -- History Subject Mexico North America -- Mexican-American Border Region United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813589831 0813589835 9780813589800 0813589800

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