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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