About Migrant Children in Tobacco in Nayarit, Mexico

Indigenous Huichole families migrate from their mountain villages to Nayarit to pick tobacco. During the growing season, families live out in the open in the fields, without sanitation, transportation, clean water or shelter. The entire family works to earn the salary paid to the father.
The families are isolated, and organizing to obtain better living and working conditions is a practical impossibility.

Waiting

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Nayarit, Mexico
A young migrant worker stands in truck waiting for a ride "home" after a long day's work in the tobacco fields.

Hazardous Harvest

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Nayarit, Mexico
A young Huichole migrant worker harvests tobacco.

Boy harvesting Tobacco

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Nayarit, Mexico
A young migrant worker carries tobacco.

Stringing Tobacco

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Nayarit, Mexico
A Huichol girl strings tobacco.