Yesenia Cuello was raised a first-generation American near the tobacco field where she toiled as a kid. Now she’s leading a fight for the protections she needed. This story is published in partnership with Enlace Latino NC. Léalo en Español en Enlace Latino NC. When Yesenia Cuello was 17, she took a photo. In it, […]
Category: Immigration
Posted inCOVID-19, Culture, Economies, Immigration, North Carolina, Public Health
We’re partnering with Enlace Latino NC to cover economy, environment in rural Latinx communities
Victoria Bouloubasis will cover the intersection of environmental issues and economic mobility in Latinx, immigrant, and refugee communities in North Carolina.
Posted inAtlantic Coast, COVID-19, Food & Agriculture, Immigration, Justice, North Carolina, Public Health
Farmworkers left behind by broken labor and disaster aid systems
A hurricane season on top of a pandemic showed how farmworkers in North Carolina are susceptible to dangerous conditions on the job.
Posted inClimate, Disaster Recovery, Food & Agriculture, Immigration, Justice, North Carolina, Uncategorized
Without emergency alerts in Spanish, Latino immigrants in rural North Carolina can’t prepare for storms
Each hurricane season, eastern North Carolina braces for the worst. But emergency planning, response and recovery efforts neglect a major marginalized population: rural Latinos.
Posted inCulture, Immigration, Justice
How water sustains movements from North Carolina to the borderlands
Destroying water sources is a tactic used by police and border patrol agents to control social and migratory movements.
Posted inCOVID-19, Economies, Food & Agriculture, Immigration, Justice, North Carolina, Public Health
‘They didn’t tell us anything’: North Carolina poultry plant workers say Butterball isn’t protecting them from COVID-19
As the virus spreads through meatpacking plants across the U.S., immigrant communities struggle to get answers from the company or state about cases at a Mount Olive facility.