By Charles D. Thompson, Jr. Imagine you are Enrique. You’ve left your home and family to follow your father to work in Louisburg, North Carolina. You will live for half... [Read more]
The Things They Carried
By Kyle Warren, SAF Into the Fields intern Luis in Arkansas, Sweet Potato We don’t have anywhere else to go. You just have to make the best of a rough... [Read more]
Migrating For A Dream
In 2019, Student Action with Farmworkers’ interns worked with farmworkers and migrant education students to create visual alphabets focusing on the theme of farm work. Method During two participatory workshops,... [Read more]
Xochil
Xochil wants to lead an easier life than her parents who have always worked in the fields. Her parents give her a lot of advice and want her to stay... [Read more]
Israel
If Israel were American, he'd be retired by now. Instead the seventy-year-old man from Mexico keeps working in the tomato fields. He wishes everyone knew how hard it is to... [Read more]
Edgar
Edgar imagined the U.S. much differently before coming here. His brother had told him stories and shared pictures, but he was surprised by how clean and orderly everything seems. That... [Read more]
Pedro
Pedro has had a lot of different supervisors. Some have been better than others. He remembers one in particular who called farmworkers "wetbacks." Pedro puts up with it because he... [Read more]
Crossing Paths
These are the stories of past and present African American and Latino farmworkers struggling to create a livelihood in the face of some of the most challenging working conditions in... [Read more]
More Than Anything
A view of life for a migrant family living in limbo to work the tobacco fields of North Carolina so they can raise six children up right in the very... [Read more]
Working With And For Family
This documentary explores the theme of family in labor lore: how cell phones connect farmworkers to their loved ones far away, how they distract themselves from loneliness, and how the... [Read more]
Many Hands, No Faces
Short documentary film on immigrant labor in North Carolina tobacco fields by Student Action With Farmworkers intern Laura Valencia.
More Than One Story
Twenty-five years of narratives from farmworkers mostly in the Carolinas, told in labor camp kitchens, on trailer porch stoops, and in small living rooms with fans whirring and children playing... [Read more]