Throughout South Asia, young men and women are pursuing new educational opportunities and getting married later. These changes, Nicoletta del Franco contends, have cleared new paths toward adulthood--ways of passage whose complex implications have not been fully explored.
In "Negotiating Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh," she fills this gap, documenting the realities of daily existence for young people as they navigate their lives amid the profound socioeconomic tumult of southwestern Bangladesh. Del Franco focuses on three main areas of these adolescents' lives: college and student...

This book provides a nuanced, complex, comparative analysis of adolescent girls' migration and mobility in the Global South.