Becoming Transnational Youth Workers
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Becoming Transnational Youth Workers

Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility

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eBook - ePub

Becoming Transnational Youth Workers

Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1. In the Shadows of Skyscrapers and Ivory Towers
  7. Chapter 2. “Giving My Family a Better Future”: Familism and Interdependence across Borders
  8. Chapter 3. “We All Come Young”: The Migration of Mexican Independent Teenage Migrants
  9. Chapter 4. Pushed or Jumped? School Going, School Leaving, and School Returning
  10. Chapter 5. From Campos to Kitchens: Becoming Immigrant Workers
  11. Chapter 6. Between Becoming and Being Adults
  12. Chapter 7. Conclusion
  13. Appendix: Considerations When Researching with Unauthorized and Independent Minors
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index
  18. About the Author
  19. Read More in the Series