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

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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 exam...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martínez, Isabel, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Latinidad.
Temas:
Foreign workers > United States.
Foreign workers > Mexico.
Teenage immigrants > United States.
Teenage immigrants > Mexico.
Adolescents immigrants > États-Unis.
Adolescents immigrants > Mexique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Foreign workers.
Teenage immigrants.
Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Histoire.
Mexico.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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