Following the crop cycles in California and Mexico, generations of Mexican farmworkers have migrated back and forth to provide for their families
The lack of employment opportunities is one of the reasons people leave. It’s why Cano’s maternal grandfather, Octavio Gutiérrez, migrated in the 1970s and irrevocably changed his family’s trajectory.
Octavio Gutiérrez was able to obtain U.S. permanent residency following the enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, which granted amnesty to about three million undocumented immigrants. His wife, Teresa, joined him shortly after. By that time, all of her children, except Eduviges, were living in the U.S.; some documented, others not. Teresa has lived in Arbuckle, California, for almost 30 years, where she also worked in the fields for a short period of time.
Family members pose for a portrait at the international airport in Guadalajara, Mexico on the day half of them must return to their lives in the United States. Eduviges Gutiérrez, 51, and her son Carlos, 29, stand behind Luz Nallely Cano and her three boys. Cano and her children spend half the year in Mexico.Eduviges Gutiérrez bids farewell to her daughter Luz Nallely Cano, 26, and four-year-old grandson Esteban before they get on a flight to the U.S.
This is exactly what Cano wants for her children and what a few of her family members have managed to make happen.When the leaves change color and start to fall, that’s when Cano’s three boys start asking her with desperation if it’s time to visit“Life in the countryside is beautiful,” Cano says. “My kids like it here very much.”
Cano doesn’t have to pay school tuition in Williams and qualifies for the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance and Medicaid programs. Neither of those benefits are available in Ramblas. She oscillates between preferring one place over the other, faithful to her migratory patterns.
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