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Becoming Transnational Youth Workers
Isabel Martinez
其他書名
Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility
出版Rutgers University Press, 2019-06-14
主題Social Science / GeneralSocial Science / Emigration & ImmigrationBusiness & Economics / Labor / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / ImmigrationSocial Science / DiscriminationSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
ISBN08135897979780813589794
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PPy9DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.