A DAY IN THE

Latino Day Laborers Share Struggles in Photovoice Study

By Charles Schelle

"Me manda el estrés – la preocupación de no conseguir trabajo y no puedo pagar los biles.” / "It causes me stress — the worry of not finding work and not being able to pay the bills."

Those words by a Latino immigrant day laborer in Baltimore provide insight into a day in the mental health and life of over 100,000 who find themselves in the same situation across the United States. Six men ages 25-50 from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Honduras chronicled their daily life in words and photos for Proyecto SALUD: A Photovoice Study of the Behavioral Health of Latino Immigrant Men in Baltimore.

“We arrive here desperate, searching for work ... and both the people who live here and Latinos take advantage of us ...They don't pay in full ... (they say) 'another day' and 'another day' and they never return to pay the rest.”

The study was one of dozens of poster presentations featuring University of Maryland School of Social Work (UMSSW) research featured at the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) Annual Conference in Seattle on Jan. 16-19. 

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