Becoming Transnational Youth WorkersBecoming 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