Lexie Harrison-Cripps
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, field workers carry out the season’s mango cut. They climb the trees with bare feet and use nets at the end of long poles to pull the mangos from their branches. Other workers wait below to empty the nets into crates. Unblemished mangos are then sent to be cleaned to ensure that the sap does not taint the fruit. Only then can they be offered for sale.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, field workers carry out the season’s mango cut. They climb the trees with bare feet and use nets at the end of long poles to pull the mangos from their branches. Other workers wait below to empty the nets into crates. Unblemished mangos are then sent to be cleaned to ensure that the sap does not taint the fruit. Only then can they be offered for sale.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, field workers carry out the season’s mango cut. They climb the trees with bare feet and use nets at the end of long poles to pull the mangos from their branches. Other workers wait below to empty the nets into crates. Unblemished mangos are then sent to be cleaned to ensure that the sap does not taint the fruit. Only then can they be offered for sale.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, a mango cutter climbs to branches that are several meters of the ground where they can reach the tallest mangos with a long pole. The cutters have bare feet to be able to grip the tree branches. Other workers wait below to empty the nets into crates. Unblemished mangos are then sent to be cleaned to ensure that the sap does not taint the fruit. Only then can they be offered for sale.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, a mango picker places recently cut mangos into a crate where they will go through quality control, a cleaning process and then be sold to a company to be distributed to the United States.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, Jose Luis poses for a photograph in front of his latest batch of mangos. The mangos will be offered to international distributors, where only some will pass quality control.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, workers place mangos into boxes at a packing factory in Tapachula. The mangos go through quality control, are filtered to the workers who place them in boxes and add stickers to the mangos.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, workers place mangos into boxes at a packing factory in Tapachula. The mangos go through quality control, are filtered to the workers who place them in boxes and add stickers to the mangos.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, a mango packer places a box of mangos onto the next stage of the production line, to be sent out into the market.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, a mango worker places a crate of mangos onto the beginning of the production line where they will be sorted, packed into boxes, have a sticker added and then distributed.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, a mango worker places a crate of mangos onto the beginning of the production line where they will be sorted, packed into boxes, have a sticker added and then distributed.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, mango packers place mangos into boxes. Only mangos that have passed quality control reach this stage of production. Once in the box, another worker will add stickers to each mango and then will then be distributed.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, mango packers place mangos into boxes. Only mangos that have passed quality control reach this stage of production. Once in the box, another worker will add stickers to each mango and then will then be distributed.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, mango packers place mangos into boxes. Only mangos that have passed quality control reach this stage of production. Once in the box, another worker will add stickers to each mango and then will then be distributed.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 09 March 2022, two mango workers in a packing factory place mangos into a large crate. They will then use a forklift truck to move the crates around the packing factory.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 08 March 2022, Guillermo [surname], [age], from [Honduras], sits outside a shelter in Tapachula. Migrants are not allowed to sleep in the shelter for more than a few nights. Guillermo no longer has access to the shelter or a bed to sleep in. As such, he waits outside and washes in a nearby stream.
Every day, Guillermo waits outside the shelter in hope of being offered agricultural work. Occasionally, a truck passes looking for workers although Guillermo has only had 8 days work in the past month and does not have official permission to work.
Every day, Guillermo waits outside the shelter in hope of being offered agricultural work. Occasionally, a truck passes looking for workers although Guillermo has only had 8 days work in the past month and does not have official permission to work.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 08 March 2022, Guillermo, [age], from [Honduras] climbs underneath a wire fence next to a shelter in Tapachula. The shelter restricts the number of nights that migrants can stay in the shelters. Guillermo no longer has access to the shelter and so has built a small camp in the woods nearby. He uses the stream to wash in.
Every day, Guillermo waits outside the shelter in hope of being offered agricultural work. Occasionally, a truck passes looking for workers although Guillermo has only had 8 days work in the past month and does not have official permission to work.
Every day, Guillermo waits outside the shelter in hope of being offered agricultural work. Occasionally, a truck passes looking for workers although Guillermo has only had 8 days work in the past month and does not have official permission to work.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 08 March 2022, Guillermo, [age], from [Honduras] relaxes in a makeshift shelter in the woods in Tapachula. The stream in the foreground doubles as his bathroom.
Every day, Guillermo waits outside the shelter in hope of being offered agricultural work. Occasionally, a truck passes looking for workers although Guillermo has only had 8 days work in the past month and does not have official permission to work.
Every day, Guillermo waits outside the shelter in hope of being offered agricultural work. Occasionally, a truck passes looking for workers although Guillermo has only had 8 days work in the past month and does not have official permission to work.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 08 March 2022, Guillermo, [age], from [Honduras] relaxes in a makeshift shelter in the woods in Tapachula.
Every day, Guillermo waits outside the shelter in hope of being offered agricultural work. Occasionally, a truck passes looking for workers although Guillermo has only had 8 days work in the past month and does not have official permission to work.
Every day, Guillermo waits outside the shelter in hope of being offered agricultural work. Occasionally, a truck passes looking for workers although Guillermo has only had 8 days work in the past month and does not have official permission to work.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 07 March 2022, Guillermo [age] from [Honduras] poses for a photograph in front of his house in a small village near to Ciudad Hidalgo. Guillermo was embarrassed about the poverty in which he lived. As he showed off his house, some ducks walked around behind him.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 07 March 2022, Guillermo [age] from [Honduras] poses for a photograph in front of his house in a small village near to Ciudad Hidalgo. Guillermo was embarrassed about the poverty in which he lived. As he showed off his house, some ducks walked around behind him.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 07 March 2022, Guillermo [age] from [Honduras] poses for a photograph in his house in a small village near to Ciudad Hidalgo. Guillermo agreed to be photographed but said that he was embarrassed about the poverty in which he lived. As he showed off his house, some ducks walked around him.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 07 March 2022, Guillermo [age] from [Honduras] poses for a photograph in his house in a small village near to Ciudad Hidalgo. Guillermo agreed to be photographed but said that he was embarrassed about the poverty in which he lived. As he showed off his house, some ducks walked around him.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 10 March 2022, Cristian [23] from [Honduras] walks along a pathway from his house in Tapachula to the mango packing factory where he works. The 30 minute walk takes him down dirt track roads, across the main highway of Tapachula, past the hospital and to the packing house.
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Chiapas, Mexico, 10 March 2022, Cristian [23] from [Honduras] walks along a pathway from his house in Tapachula to the mango packing factory where he works. The 30 minute walk takes him down dirt track roads, across the main highway of Tapachula, past the hospital and to the packing house.