Neither Here Nor There

Blanca's boyfriend Daniel tries to get her attention in her bedroom that she shares with her parents in their tiny home in Bakersfield, CA. The two do not get to see each other very much while she studies up north in Berkeley during the semester. At

Blanca has worked in the fields with her mother Gloria since she was a student in high school in order to aid the family with household bills, but moreover to save for college one day, in hopes that one day she would be allowed to attend college lik

Blanca's father Eduardo sits on the bed in their tiny one-bedroom home to keep Gloria company in Bakersfield, CA. Gloria tends to the grape fields for a large part of the year as an agricultural worker despite suffering from many ailments such as ar

Eduardo returns home after a long day of gardening at various homes for his clients in Bakersfield, CA. Throughout the year he never knows when he will have enough work in order to support the family, in addition to always being on the lookout for b

Eduardo tends to one of the yards in front of one of his client's home in one of the more affluent of neighborhood in Bakersfield, CA.Photographed on July 26, 2014.

Blanca's immediate and extended family stand outside her home and enjoy the cool autumn air on the evening of Thanksgiving in Bakersfield, CA. Blanca often returns on holidays and breaks to Bakersfield during and in between semesters in order to jug

Family outings to the river in Bakersfield, CA are a rarity for Blanca and her family, as they often work all day without a break. In addition to the little time they have, Blanca's parents often stay home if they are not working due to the fear tha

Blanca plays and jokes around with her father and her boyfriend as they struggle to both get her attention on the morning after she became a godmother. She is often in high demand and everyone constantly tries to win her over and spend the most time

Members of the Mexican community and Blanca's extended family members enjoy festivities at a party in Bakersfield, CA on the day of her godson's baptism. Many of the Mexican families that live in her community come from her mother's homeland of Guan

A clothing line full of wet clothes sits on the fence in Blanca's backyard in Bakersfield, CA. Photographed on August 24, 2013.

During a long summer day of work, Eduardo's American born daughter Sonia, 10, helps her dad with his gardening route that day in Bakersfield, CA. During the summer she often spends the day with him working while Gloria works in the grape fields.

Blanca spends the summer between her first and second semester at UC Berkeley back home in Bakersfield, CA. She talks on the phone in the background while her boyfriend Daniel hangs out with the family chicken. Photographed on August 23, 2013.

Eduardo tends to a client's backyard by cleaning up trash while the client, a police officer, relaxes in his pool in Bakersfield, CA. Photographed on June 19, 2014.

Eduardo sulks his head inside his Bakersfield home after recounting the ordeal he had to go through when he first crossed into the United States by himself without his family in 2000 from Mexico. Photographed on September 2, 2013.

Blanca and her father Eduardo pay tribute to the Virgin of Guadalupe at the start of her second semester of UC Berkeley in Berkeley, CA at an unspecified church. At the start of each semester she pays tribute by bringing flowers to the Virgin to tha

Gloria helps her daughter Blanca pack up her dorm room on the day of move out at the end of Blanca's first semester ever at UC Berkeley as a pre-med student. Even though the family struggles financially and is always behind on their rent, they alway

Often Blanca spends long hours into the night in the library on the UC Berkeley campus in order to study. She often has to juggle her academic life with constantly checking in with her family all day long to make sure they are safe. In addition, her

Blanca packs up her backpack at the end of one her classes in a lecture auditorium at UC Berkeley. Often Blanca finds herself tired and without enough time in the day to juggle her academic life and managing and staying in contact with her family in

Blanca prepares herself in the morning in her room at school before heading off to her first class that day in her second semester of school at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, CA. Photographed on November 24, 2013.

Blanca gives a presentation with classmates during a university writing course geared towards students who learned English as a second language, such as herself, during her second semester as a UC Berkeley pre-med student. The other students in this

Blanca and her best friend at UC Berkeley Diana sit at home in their off campus apartment they share with two other girls in Berkeley, CA after a long day of classes. Two days prior to this President Obama announced to the nation that he would be im

Blanca walks up a wooded path in Berkeley Hills to go catch a California sunset overlooking the UC Berkeley campus and the Bay Area. Photographed August 30, 2013.

Blanca passes a set of fields as she makes the journey back to Bakersfield from Berkeley by train to see her family for Thanksgiving break. Photographed on November 26, 2013.

Blanca's parents and sister embrace and cry with joy upon seeing their daughter arrive at the Bakersfield Amtrak station for Thanksgiving break during Blanca's second semester at UC Berkeley. The family is always overjoyed to see their first born. P

Blanca's parents drive from their Bakersfield home to a local clinic to get blood tests done for Gloria. Driving while undocumented always brings fear to immigrants. Statistically speaking, the vast majority of stops that lead to deportations happen

Eduardo empties his truck, or "la troca" as the family calls it, of leaves accumulated from clients' yards at the Bakersfield city dump. The truck is used for work as well as all aspects of life. The family's truck is a big part of their lives and s

Gloria stands under one of the sheds at work in the neighboring town of Lamont, CA. She has been working int he grape friends for many years now ever since arriving in the United States in 2001. Photographed on July 26, 2014.

A "banda" practices in the early evening in Blanca's Bakersfield, CA neighborhood near her family's home. Photographed on December 1, 2013.

Blanca stands in her backyard in her Bakersfield home during summer break in front of a television that a client of her father's gifted to the family. Photographed on June 20, 2014.

It all started when…

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