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Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374039-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7403-9
... Each year, teenagers flee the villages of northern Togo for Benin and Nigeria to farm (boys) and work as domestics (girls). NGOs consider these cross-border migrations “child trafficking” because youth are often seduced into going by the promises of devious middlemen and because their labor...
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By Charles Piot
Published: 05 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7403-9
... youth migration child trafficking Benin Nigeria gender ...
Published: 05 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7403-9
... as domestics (girls). NGOs consider these cross-border migrations “child trafficking” because youth are often seduced into going by the promises of devious middlemen and because their labor is hyper-exploited. But student research discovered that youth in these villages largely go of their own volition and see...
Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059899-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5989-9
... of incarceration. Their actions and peer-to-peer training exceed the discursive limits of the cap-and-gown narrative of other undocumented youth risking arrest. When IYC trainers brought their “Undocumented, Unafraid” workshops to Hawai?i, they sparked a youth-led reckoning with the complexity of migration...
Published: 30 January 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023586-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2358-6
... Chapter 1 draws on original oral histories, archival research, and the published archive of surveys, sociological studies, reportage, and memoirs to survey the central city “stems” and amusement districts in and through which “throwaway” youth regularly circulated, usually in sync...
Published: 30 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027195-019
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2719-5
..., random detentions, and deportations—enclose, penetrate, define, limit, and frustrate the lives of undocumented 1.5-generation Latino immigrants (those who migrated at a young age). youth citizenship biopolitics confinement ...
Published: 06 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059530-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5953-0
... The chapter illustrates the intimate connections between adult migrants and their young adult children, often referred to as “Dreamers.” Drawing from one family migration story, it demonstrates how student’s lives are inextricably intertwined with that of their parents. This chapter dramatically...
Published: 12 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7320-9
...Migrating Identities, Moving Borders Focusing on the presence of Robinson Crusoe in Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart (1946), this essay examines how Bulosan’s novel about Filipino migrant labor uses the figure of the island to undercut the unconscious spatial frameworks of US...
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By Joseph Plaster
Published: 30 January 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023586-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2358-6
..., storytelling, kinship conventions, body language, and gesture. In doing so, the chapter introduces a politics where the marginal position of street youth—the self-defined “kids on the street,” hair fairies, hustlers, queens, and “undesirables”—is the basis for a moral economy of reciprocity and mutual aid...
Published: 30 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2719-5
... insurance, car insurance, random detentions, and deportations—enclose, penetrate, define, limit, and frustrate the lives of undocumented 1.5-generation Latino immigrants (those who migrated at a young age). youth citizenship biopolitics confinement This chapter offers up the conceptual...
Published: 25 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375708-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7570-8
... guidance outreach for girls, the advocacy for girls to secure employment in stores that served black Chicago but did not hire them, and girls’ enrollment in Chicago’s National Youth Administration Resident School for Girls. Great Depression Alpha Kappa Alpha National Youth Administration boycott ...
Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
...). The chapter details the violence that sent the family north during the Great Migration, the sense of homecoming Rosemarie experienced when she returned in the early 1960s, and the civil rights work and movement colleagues Rosemarie joined in the South. Starkville Georgia Great Migration Albany...
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By Marcia Chatelain
Published: 25 February 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7570-8
... Great Depression Alpha Kappa Alpha National Youth Administration boycott ...
Published: 08 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059158-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5915-8
... in the development of Black understandings of life “out West,” and shows how both radical agitation and the politics of youth culture undergird these interethnic histories. The links between African America, Japan, and the Japanese diaspora illustrate the triadic concern with interethnicity, internationalism...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-127
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... The life of the Aymara hip-hop artist Abraham Bojórquez was cut off tragically in a traffc accident in El Alto in 2009, when he was twenty-six. Born in El Alto, he migrated to Brazil alone when he was twelve and worked in textile workshops and other informal jobs in São Paulo. There he learned...
Published: 08 March 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5915-8
... a fundamental role in the development of Black understandings of life “out West,” and shows how both radical agitation and the politics of youth culture undergird these interethnic histories. The links between African America, Japan, and the Japanese diaspora illustrate the triadic concern with interethnicity...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-136
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... power with anti-indigenous and anti-Colla prejudice. Among the different social and political organizations that were formed as a reaction against the revolution of 1952, one of the more consequential and enduring was the Youth Union for Santa Cruz, based in the heart of urban Santa Cruz...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-120
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... accident in El Alto in 2009, when he was twenty-six. Born in El Alto, he migrated to Brazil alone when he was twelve and worked in textile workshops and other informal jobs in São Paulo. There he learned to rap in shantytowns and brought the musical style back to El Alto in 2002. The popular uprising...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-091
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
..., especially radical Catholic youth, naïvely seeking to imitate the heroism of Che. But recent research has found that the Christian segment was not predominant, that the movement emerged out of the earlier eln experiment, and that initially at least it had connections with the Cuban government as well...