Name: Mississippi Chicken
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007
Duration: 1 min 22 s

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

2007

Location

Canton, Mississippi, USA

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 22m

Synopsis

In the 1990s, poultry companies in Mississippi and throughout the American South began to heavily recruit Latin American immigrants, most of them undocumented, to work in the poultry plants. A decade later, there are now large immigrant communities in poultry towns all over the South, and the immigrants find themselves in an extremely vulnerable situation, where they are frequent victims of abuse by employers, police officers, landlords, neighbors and even other immigrants. The documentary reveals this perilous, fragile, and yet amazingly hopeful world of Latin American immigrants in a Mississippi trailer park that sits next to a poultry plant.