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The Migrants' Journey

By Citizen Correspondent Katrina Simmons
Date Posted: 10/03/07
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This is a short, narrated photo documentary of the dangerous journey that many Central and South Americans endure. Motivated by economic and political hardship, they leave their homes to find work in the USA and Canada. There are thousands of Latin Americans living in our communities, yet we rarely see coverage of this issue in Canadian mainstream media. We felt an obligation to tell their story.

My partner and I are a photo-journalist team in Dundas, Ontario (www.2020studios.com). We traveled to Guatemala, Mexico and the southern US, to talk to Latin American migrants that were heading north to find work in the United States.

We visited migrant hostels and humanitarian organizations, and sat with hundreds of migrants as they waited track-side in southern Mexico to jump on the north-bound freight trains. We joined Humane Borders on one of their daily routes, maintaining water stations for people crossing the desert in Arizona, and talked to Minutemen as they staged a protest against day laborers in southern California.

This is their story.












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Re: The Migrants' Story

By Robyn Stubbs, October 12, 2007 at 14:29

What a beautifully documented journey of your own, Katrina. Thank you for sharing this story - we look forward to your future contributions.

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