From Their Hometown to My Hometown: Life of The Mexican Migrant Worker in SF

For years, my career in the field of Latin American medical relief brought me face to face with the daily struggle of many Latin Americans just trying to survive. I visited countless rural towns where economic prosperity had not arrived, and had no plans to. There, I met many local men with no jobs, whose families had no income, and whose children had no better future. But never can I recall meeting the men and women who left the security of their hometown for the United States in search of this better future for themselves and their families, … at least until I began exploring the lives of Mexican migrant workers living in my own hometown, San Francisco’s Mission District.

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