北美／中美洲，系列照片

Ismail Ferdous

孟加拉，Agence VU’

在美國肉品加工業工作的移民故事闡述了許多移民到達目的地後的生活。在美國，肉品工業的勞動人口結構中有37％是移民。在COVID-19 疫情期間，肉類加工廠仍持續作業，因為它們被視為關鍵基礎建設。新冠病毒在工人彼此靠近的工作環境下迅速傳播。美國環境工作組織的一項研究發現，肉品加工業重鎮與鄰近地區的COVID-19感染率是全國平均水平的兩倍。

2020年9月6日，美國南達科他州，蘇福爾斯，José和他的妹妹Sara坐在房間裡。José在2020年4月感染COVID-19之前，在一家肉品加工廠工作。他在醫院裡靠呼吸器住了五個月，至今仍需要氧氣瓶。

North and Central America, Stories

Ismail Ferdous

Bangladesh, Agence VU’

The stories of migrants working in the US meatpacking industry shed light on the lives many migrants lead once they reach their destination. Nationally, immigrants make up 37 percent of the meat industry labor force. During the COVID-19 pandemic, meatpacking plants remained open as they were considered critical infrastructure. The coronavirus spread quickly in an industry where workers operated in close proximity to each other. A study by the US-based Environmental Working Group found that counties with or near meatpacking industries reported twice the national average rate of COVID-19 infection.

José sits in his room with his sister Sara, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, on 6 September 2020. Jose worked in a meatpacking plant until contracting COVID-19 in April 2020. He was in the hospital on a ventilator for five months, and still uses an oxygen cylinder.