A Worker of No Land: A Farmworker’s Place in North Carolina

farmworker living conditions.

It takes more than 33 hours to travel the 1,600 miles from Durango, Mexico to Johnston County, North Carolina. This year, that was the journey one farmworker made to a tobacco and sweet potato farm in Johnston County where he is spending another season harvesting crops. For three decades, he has crossed the border on H-2A temporary visas, moving through fields across the United States. Thirty years of planting, picking, and pruning. Thirty years of labor, building two economies, yet with no retirement, no health benefits, and no promise that either country will truly take care of him. 

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