Source: Cass Herrington, WUNC, 10/10/19


Migrant farmworkers in rural areas face a lot of pressure -- from language barriers, to geographic isolation, to the current political climate surrounding immigration.  Add in the limited access to mental healthcare in rural locales, it puts workers who travel to Western North Carolina for the harvest season in an even tougher position.   At a migrant camp in Franklin, NC, it’s a humid, late summer evening . The sun has gone down, but the air is still hot and thick.

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