{"product_id":"becoming-transnational-youth-workers-independent-mexican-teenage-migrants-and-pathways-of-survival-and-social-mobility-hardback-9780813589800","title":"Becoming Transnational Youth Workers; Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility (Hardback) 9780813589800","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBecoming Transnational Youth Workers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIndependent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIsabel Martinez (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813589800\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 June 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.463 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"An absorbing, luminous and nuanced story of independent teenage migrants-“minors” by U.S. age norms-who journey from Mexico to New York City on their own, leaving parents and siblings behind to help support them financially, outside the purview of the legal system. How they manage these intrepid journeys, and the predicaments that inevitably accompany them, is the subject of this remarkable book. Theoretically sophisticated and deeply observed across years of field work in communities of origin and destination, this is an original and exceptional contribution to the scholarly literature on migration, mobility, and a changing transnational life course.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Rubén G. Rumbaut (co-author of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An absorbing, luminous and nuanced story of independent teenage migrants-“minors” by U.S. age norms-who journey from Mexico to New York City on their own, leaving parents and siblings behind to help support them financially, outside the purview of the legal system. How they manage these intrepid journeys, and the predicaments that inevitably accompany them, is the subject of this remarkable book. Theoretically sophisticated and deeply observed across years of field work in communities of origin and destination, this is an original and exceptional contribution to the scholarly literature on migration, mobility, and a changing transnational life course.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Rubén G. Rumbaut (co-author of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Isabel Martinez helps us see. In the famous book \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man \u003c\/i\u003eEllison brings us into the world of the unseen worker, the African American living amongst us but not integrated or accepted. Isabel Martinez’ skillful combining of sociology, anthropology, and dissection of legal process helps make visible the lives of migrant teenagers. She reveals through the voices of these youth stories of their daily lives, the factors that motivated them to make lonely dangerous journeys to the United States. She makes palpable the obstacles to integration experienced by Mexican migrant youth. This book will aid anyone seeking to serve immigrant communities whether as an educator, advocate, policy analyst, or fellow resident of the United States.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Lenni Benson (co-author of Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Isabel Martinez helps us see. In the famous book \u003ci\u003eInvisible Man \u003c\/i\u003eEllison brings us into the world of the unseen worker, the African American living amongst us but not integrated or accepted. Isabel Martinez’ skillful combining of sociology, anthropology, and dissection of legal process helps make visible the lives of migrant teenagers. She reveals through the voices of these youth stories of their daily lives, the factors that motivated them to make lonely dangerous journeys to the United States. She makes palpable the obstacles to integration experienced by Mexican migrant youth. This book will aid anyone seeking to serve immigrant communities whether as an educator, advocate, policy analyst, or fellow resident of the United States.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Lenni Benson (co-author of Immigration and Nationality Law: Problems and Strategies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBecoming Transnational Youth Workers \u003c\/i\u003econtests 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Shadows of Skyscrapers and Ivory Towers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“\u003cbr\u003eGiving my family a better future”\u003cbr\u003e: Familism and Interdependence Across Borders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“\u003cbr\u003eWe all come little”\u003cbr\u003e: The Migration of Mexican Independent Teenage Migrants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePushed or Jumped? School-Going, School-Leaving and School-Returning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Campos to Kitchens: Becoming Immigrant Workers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBetween Becoming and Being Adults\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e About the Author\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563715588376,"sku":"9780813589800","price":91.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/becoming-transnational-youth-workers-independent-mexican-teenage-migrants-and-pathways-of-survival-and-social-mobility-hardback-9780813589800","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}