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Bolivians wait for job offers, including those in Argentina and Brazil, in an employment agency in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Tens of thousands of Bolivians leave their impoverished country every year looking for work. (Jack Chang / MCT)
Bolivians wait for job offers in an employment agency in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. (Jack Chang / MCT)
Single mother Wilma Paules waits for a job offer, preferably outside of her country, at an employment agency in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. (Jack Chang / MCT)
Employment agent Mirian Lopez helps hundreds of Bolivians every month look for work, with many of them seeking jobs in neighboring Argentina and Bolivia. Lopez herself would like to move to Brazil. (Jack Chang / MCT)
Bolivians wait for job offers in employment agencies in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. (Jack Chang / MCT)
Thousands of Bolivian migrants fill a weekly Bolivian fair in a plaza in Sao Paulo, Brazil. As many as 200,000 Bolivians live in the city, with the vast majority of them working in the local garment industry. (Jack Chang / MCT)
Thousands of Bolivian migrants fill a weekly Bolivian fair in a plaza in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Jack Chang / MCT)
Sergio Quispe Cuellar sells clothes and fabrics made in his native Bolivia at a weekly Bolivian fair in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Like hundreds of thousands of Bolivians, Cuellar left his native country seeking work elsewhere. Like many Bolivians, he toiled in the city's garment industry for years and eventually opened his own factory. (Jack Chang / MCT)
Luis Fernando Cruz, left, and Tomas Mamani Mamani seek help with their residency visas at a pastoral migration aid office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Jack Chang / MCT)
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