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Latinx Heritage Month - Book talk with Dr. Isabel Martinez |
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Start Date: | 9/25/2019 | Start Time: | 6:00 PM |
End Date: | 9/25/2019 | End Time: | 8:00 PM |
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Event Description:
BOOK TALK
—Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility
with Dr. Isabel Martínez
Wednesday, September 25
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
NB, 9.64 (9th Floor Conference Room)
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.
View full Latinx Heritage Month events schedule
Sponsored by the Latin American and Latinx Studies Dept. (LLS)
and La Voz |
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