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Working with Migrants; Shadowing the Undocumented
Reportage
Description
Reporters have worked as migrant laborers and shadowed undocumented workers crossing the border into the United States.
Reporters
Media History
The reporting was intended for these media types: Magazine, Newspaper, Book
Articles, Books, Video/Film
"Immigrants with No Criminal History Get Lengthy Stays at Private South Florida Facility" - Megan O'Matz - WPTV
December 31, 1969
Immigrants went undercover to investigate the mistreatment of illegal immigrants who were imprisoned for no ...I-"I Saw Human Shame as a Migrant Worker" - Dale Wright - New York Telegram and Sun
October 10, 1961
For six months, on and off, Dale Wright worked as a migrant worker. This is the first article in the "Forgotten ...II-"Migrant Pay $4.32 a Day In Florida Tomato Field" - Dale Wright - New York Telegram and Sun
October 11, 1961
In the context of four migrant worker deaths in a labor farm fire, Dale Wright continues his reporting based on six ...III-"Migrants Live Horror Story in Job Travel" - Dale Wright - New York Telegram and Sun
October 12, 1961
The third in a series of articles based on the six months that Dale Wright posed as a migrant worker on the Atlantic ...IV-"Migrant Labor Exploited by Delay Trick" - Dale Wright - New York Telegram and Sun
October 13, 1961
The fourth installment to the Dale Wright's series on the conditions of migrant workers continues with a look at how ...V-"Speed-Up Forces Migrants to Quit Job Before Payday" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun
October 16, 1961
The fifth installment of 'The Forgotten People' series. Speed-ups and child labor were parts of daily life for the ...VI-"Migrant Workers Need U.S. Protection" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun | Farm States Won't Help; Laborers are Gypped Everywhere They Go
October 17, 1961
The sixth installment to 'The Forgotten People' series. Dale Wright moves from Florida to South Carolina and goes ...VII-"Farm Camp Slum, Exposed 8 Years Ago, Is Still Hell" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun
October 18, 1961
The seventh installment of 'The Forgotten People' series. Dale Wright moves undercover as a migrant worker to New ...VIII-"Migrant Accepts Gyp as Part of Life" | Lack of Schooling Makes Him Easy Mark of Cheat
October 19, 1961
The eighth installment in 'The Forgotten People' series. Dale Wright looks at the tricks some farm operators use to ...IX-"Migrants Exist in Duck Sheds" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun
October 20, 1961
The ninth and second to last article in Wright's series on migrant workers focuses on New York State.X-"State Could Remedy Conditions for Migrant Labor" - Dale Wright - New York World Telegram and Sun
October 23, 1961
The tenth and final article in 'The Forgotten People' series, based on Dale Wright's undercover reporting as a ...Dale Wright's "They Harvest Despair: The Migrant Farm Worker"
1965"Waiting for the Eagle to Fly: With Nappy Chin, Hoppalong Geech, and Big Momma Rock Undercover" - Les Payne - Newsday | Undercover at Migrant Labor Camp
July 11, 1970
Les Payne went undercover posing as a migrant laborer for a week in Long Island, New York.“Mexico’s ‘Mordida’: Bribes Are a Way of Life—and Death" - Mike Goodman and Patt Morrison - Los Angeles Times | U.S. Families Pay Up to $1,000 to Recover Loved Ones’ Bodies
February 9, 1977
Two [LA] Times reporters went to Tijuana posing as a sister and brother searching for a missing cousin. Their ..."The Long Road North" - John Davidson - Texas Monthly | Hunger, Thirst, Exhaustion, and Snakebite Plague the Journey of the Wetback, but There's Only One Danger That Counts.
October 1, 1977
John Davidson followed and documented the life of Javier, an illegal immigrant on a journey from Texas to Mexico and ...Grace Halsell's "The Illegals"
1978Dick J. Reavis' "Without Documents"
1978John Davidson's "The Long Road North"
1981I-"Merlina's Job in Oscar Herrera's Factory" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 14, 1981
The first in a series of articles about LA sweatshops, based on undercover reporting as a Spanish-speaking worker by ...II-"Five Days' Work for Felix Mendoza, $38.74" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 15, 1981
Wolin continues her account of working undercover in California sweatshops, the underworld backbone of the state's ...III-"'This is the filthiest of all industries'" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 16, 1981
Wolin looks into the Health Department's investigations into the state of California's garment industry.IV-"Homework: The Alien’s Secret Support System" Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 18, 1981
The third chapter of Wolin's undercover work in the garment industry. Here, the reporter examines garment ...V-"Seven Hours in a Union Shop for $2.50" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 19, 1981
Wolin, as part of her investigative series on Los Angeles's garment industry, is hired to work in a union shop, ...VI-"Merlina faces the labor commissioner - and wins" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 20, 1981
The reporter confronts a union shop she worked in undercover as an undocumented worker as part of an investigation ...VII-"'I"m not Joan of Arc. I'm a garment manufacturer.'" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 21, 1981
The seventh chapter in Wolin's series of reports on the LA garment industry. Wolin spent time working undercover in ...VIII-"The work is 'killing' Martha and Oscar" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 22, 1981
The reporter, who worked in several factories in LA posing undercover as an undocumented worker, confronts the ...IX-"The fading of Felix Mendoza's dream" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 23, 1981
Wolin returns to the first factory she visited undercover as an illegal garment worker in Los Angeles, and ...X-"Employer Meets Employer—Merlina, Melton, Mendoza" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 25, 1981
Wolin confronts another manufacturer about her time spent working undercover in several LA garment factories.XI-"It’s Another Mike Wallace Trick!" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 26, 1981
Wolin confronts another owner of a manufacturing plant, after working undercover in the LA garment industry as an ...XII-"The retailer's side of the story" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 27, 1981
Wolin talks to retailers who sell clothes from the manufacturers she worked for posing undercover as an undocumented ...XIII-"Who are the players? What are the problems?" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 28, 1981
Wolin continues her investigative report on LA's garment industry, based on time spent undercover working in factories.XIV-"Bradley: 'I wouldn't want to speculate...'" -Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
January 29, 1981
Wolin interviews LA's Mayor Bradley about the working conditions and lack of regulation she found while posing ...XV-"Brown: 'It's wrong for a civilized society...'" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald Examiner
January 30, 1981
Merle Linda Wolin interviews California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. about her findings after reporting undercover ...XVI-"What it will take to 'outlaw slavery'" - Merle Linda Wolin - Los Angeles Herald Examiner
February 1, 1981
Final piece in the Sweatshop series, based on the reporter's undercover work in LA's garment industry.Editorial: "What to do about 'Sweatshop'" - Unsigned - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
February 8, 1981
An editorial on the effects of Wolin's undercover reporting from Los Angeles's garment industryTed Conover's "Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens"
1981I-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "The Long, Hot Wait for Pickin' Work"
October 9, 1983
Neil Henry describes his journey from a Washington, D.C. soup kitchen known as SOME House to the "pickin'" fields ...II-"The Black Dispatch'" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "Slim Pickin': Taken for a Ride, Sold 'Like Cattle'"
October 10, 1983III-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "Half a Day Nets $1.50 and 'Supper'"
October 11, 1983IV-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "A Wretched Reality of Life in the Fields"
October 12, 1983V-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "Homeward Bound: Trading Buckets for Bus Tickets: The Northbound Highway Home"
October 13, 1983VI-"The Black Dispatch" - Neil Henry - Washington Post | "Looking for Answers About Workers and Wages"
October 14, 1983Gunter Wallraf''s "The Lowest of the Low"
1985"11 Hours to Monterrey" - Dick J. Reavis - Dallas Observer | Ride Along on Dallas' Midnight Express to Mexico to Monterrey.
June 24, 1993
Dick Reavis goes undercover to reveal the illegal immigrations from Dallas to Mexico."The Crossing: A special report: A Perilous 4,000-Mile Passage to Work" - Charlie LeDuff - New York Times
May 20, 2001
LeDuff shadowed a group of Mexicans crossing the border illegally into the United States and making their way to ...I-"Enrique's Journey" - Sonia Nazario - Los Angeles Times | The Boy Left Behind
September 29, 2002
The first in the Pulitzer Prize-winning series that follows a Honduran boy as he makes his way to the US.II-"Enrique's Journey" - Sonia Nazario - Los Angeles Times | Badly Beaten, a Boy Seeks Mercy in a Rail-side Town
September 30, 2002
Second article in Nazario's series on a Honduran Boy traveling to the USIII-"Enrique's Journey" - Sonia Nazario - Los Angeles Times | Defeated Seven Times, A Boy Again Faces 'the Beast'
October 2, 2002
The third article in the Pulitzer Prize-winning series tracks Enrique's journey through the dangerous Mexican state ...IV-"Enrique's Journey" - Sonia Nazario - Los Angeles Times | Inspired by Faith, the Poor Rush Forth to Offer Food
October 4, 2002
The fourth article in the series examines the role of religion for Enrique and those who make similar journeys to ...V-"Enrique's Journey" - Sonia Nazario - Los Angeles Times | A Milky Green River Between Him and His Dream
October 6, 2002
Enrique crosses the border into the US from Mexico in the fifth article of the series.VI-"Enrique's Journey" - Sonia Nazario - Los Angeles Times | At Journey's End, A Dark River, Perhaps a New Life
October 7, 2002
Enrique crosses the border into the US in the final article of the series."By a Back Door to the U.S." - Sandra Ochoa and Ginger Thompson - New York Times | A Migrant's Grim Sea Voyage; Dangerous Passage: From Ecuador by Sea
June 13, 2004
A reporter accompanies 205 Ecuadorian migrants on their perilous effort trying to get to the United States.Sonia Nazario's "Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Danagerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother"
2007