“If you come with a visa, you have different rights that other people,” she says. “You are constantly reminded that there are thousands of other workers behind you, waiting for your place, just in case you lose or leave your job.” Read more
Lisa Martine Jenkins
Lisa Martine Jenkins is a writer currently based in Washington D.C. (and previously in Mexico City and California). She writes on international and environmental policy, and dabbles in photography, map-making, and audio production. Find her work at the Associated Press, the Guardian, Civil Eats, and the Chronicle of Social Change, or on her website lisamartinejenkins.com. Find her mostly-silly-and-occasionally-thoughtful musings on Twitter at @l_m_j_.