These are the faces of ex-Braceros (or sometimes their widows who stand for them) who worked in U.S. fields, harvesting crops and providing food for American consumers between the years 1942-1964. They gather every Sunday in Ciudad Juarez to protest because they still have not received the retirement benefits they earned half a century ago. […]
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Mr. Trump, Were Your Ancestors Ever the Tired, the Poor, the Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free?
I search the photo of these desperately poor people I photographed in the summer of 2015 at the Suchiate River at the border between Guatemala and Mexico. None of them, from any outward appearance at least, seemed to be rapists or murderers. None of them seemed to be trying to steal jobs or anything […]
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Director: Dr. Charles D. Thompson Jr. Charlie Thompson is Curriculum and Education Director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and is a lecturer in Cultural Anthropology. He has worked and studied in Guatemala since 1994. He lived with his family in Jacaltenango from 1996-1997. His other film works include The Guestworker with […]
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Misconceptions about day laborers are common. “On the Corner: Day Labor in the United States” is a report published in January of 2006 by UCLA’s Center for the Study of Urban Poverty. The report provides many basic facts about day labor today and dispels many common myths and misconceptions about this labor force as it […]
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