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02 An Onion Field near Lamont
Fernando Gonzalez tops and bags onions at sunset. |
07 An Onion Field near Lamont
Maria Antonietta Gonzalez and Jose Angel Martinez Gonzalez, two immigrants from Carranza, Chiapas, top and bag onions. |
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08 An Onion Field near Lamont
Maribel Ramirez and Laura and Alejandro Langley top and bag onions at sunset. |
09 An Onion Field near Lamont
Irene Arriola and Trini Calderon, workers on the onion sorting and bagging machine, which packs the harvested oinions in the middle of the field. |
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11 An Onion Field near Lamont
A young worker fills bags of onions on the sorting and bagging machine. |
14 An Onion Field near Mettler
Lazaro Flores, an immigrant from Chilapas, Guerrero, tops onions early in the morning. |
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19 An Onion Field near Taft
Valente Guzman Santiago, an immigrant from Nochixtlan, Oaxaca, tops onions early in the morning. |
20 An Onion Field near Taft
A farm worker tops onions late at night. Onion harvesters sometimes work at night, in order to get as many hours of work as possible, and also because in the early afternoon the heat is unbearable. Workers are not paid overtime wages for this night work. |
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21 An Onion Field near Taft
Horacio Torres, a farm worker from Mexicali, tops onions late at night. |
23 An Onion Field near Taft
Jose Sanchez, a farm worker from San Luis, Arizona, sleeps in an onion field. Sanchez was working in a crew topping onions late at night, and had no place in any nearby town to stay. |
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24 An Onion Field near Taft
Jesus Meza, a farm worker from Mexicali, gets ready to sleep in an onion field. Meza was working in a crew topping onions late at night, and had no place in any nearby town to stay. |
29 Lamont Trailer Park
The Curiel family, Mixtec immigrants from Nochixtlan in Oaxaca, Mexico, live in the Lamont Trailer Park. Ricardo was a farm worker, but now works as a pick up carpenter on construction sites in the southern San Joaquin Valley, and makes $12.50/hour, almost twice the wage of most farm workers. The family includes Ricardo, his wife Lidia Cruz, and children Javier, Jose, Ricardo Jr. and Cielo. |
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32 Trailer in a Field near Lamont
Gregorio Velasco and his son are Mixtec immigrants from San Juan Mixtepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. Velasco is a farm worker, and has lived in the US since the early 1980s. |
33 An Apartment House in Taft
Rosa Zarate and her family are Zapotec immigrants from Ajutla in Oaxaca, Mexico. Zarate takes care of children while other families work. She lives in one of a number of rundown apartment houses in Taft, where indigenous immigrants are concentrated. |
