Isabel Martinez

Becoming Transnational Youth Workers

Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Becoming Transnational Youth Workers contests mainstream notions of adolescence with its study of a cross-section of Mexican immigrant youths. Preceding the latest wave of Central American children and teenagers now fleeing violence in their homelands, the book examines a group of Mexican teenage migrants who immigrated to New York City in the early 2000s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813589800
• ISBN-10: 0813589800
• Artikelnr.: 56720772

Autorenporträt

ISABEL MARTINEZ is an assistant professor of Latin American and Latina/o studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

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 little": The Migration of Mexican Independent Teenage
Migrants
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
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author