The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
Search results for "migrant workers" ...
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Factory Slaves
The investigation into the plight of migrant workers follows the story of a young girl who left her home in Cambodia on the promise of a good factory job but arrived only to become a debt-bonded slave.
Tags: migrant workers; slaves; Cambodia; Far East
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America Now: Children of the Harvest
Children of the Harvest takes viewers into the lives migrant farm workers in America. Dateline found children as young as five were performing backbreaking work.
Tags: harvest; children; child labor; migrant farm workers
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"The Dark Side of Daries"
Rebecca Clarren takes an in-depth look at the dangerous working conditions of migrant dairy workers in the "American West." Many have been seriously injured or killed on the job, but are scared to tell their stories for fear they will be fired.
Tags: immigrant; cows; diary; farmers; milking; daries; OSHA
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New Orleans Now: Immigrants, Labor Rights and the Human Cost of Rebuilding and American City- Part 1
"An in-depth report on the variety of human rights, labor rights, health care and advocacy issues surrounding the treatment of immigrant and migrant workers in Post-Katrina New Orleans."
Tags: Hurricane Katrina; Mexican; spanish; African-American; General Robert E. Lee Circle; New Worker Center for Racial Justice; Common Ground Health Clinic; health care
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Citizenship For Sale
Reporters from WTVJ-TV went undercover to witness a Florida man, Audie Watson, in the process of selling memberships in the Little Shell Band of the Pembina Nation. Watson claims the documents he sells for $1,500 allow purchasers to enter the United States legally. Reporters confronted Watson, and he agreed to be interviewed on camera. The series also showed interviews with people who had been arrested trying to cross the border with documents sold by Watson. Although Watson is now being investigated by state and federal officials and is currently on probation in Florida for an unrelated pyramid scheme conviction, his operation has not been shut down as of January 2007.
Tags: Fraud; Native Americans; Latinos; migrant workers; undercover investigations; Customs and Border Protection; Special Agent Zachary Mann; Ron DeLorme; Reginald Thabuteau; Universal Service Dedicated to God; Chippewa; Homeland Security
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Harvest of Death
The story investigated the disproportionately high number of auto fatalities and injuries caused by Hispanic drivers, most of them seasonal migrant workers, on Virginia's East Shore. Most of the accidents were alcohol related.
Tags: FOIA; seasonal migrant workers; driving under the influence; alcohol related accident; licence plate fraud; U.S. Route 13
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The Pineros: Men of the Pines
This investigation documents the abuses of the Pineros, migrant pine workers working legally in this country under a federal guest worker program. After nine months of investigation with more than 150 interviews, and thousands of pages of FOIA documents, the Sacramento Bee unveils how these workers have been the victims of employer exploitation.
Tags: pine workers; labor shortages; federal guest worker program; U.S. Forest Service; Healthy Forests Initiative; forestry; CAR; FOIA
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Shameful Harvest
This investigation exposed how U.S. and California-based supermarket chains, including the Wal-Mart, indirectly contribute to illegal child labor by buying produce from countries where child labor is common, if not legal. Reporters made three trips to Mexico to talk to laborers; their strong commitment to the story helped them to understand and report on the complex distribution system that starts in foreign fields and end in the supermarket.
Tags: migrant labor; child workers; harvest; immigration; INS; vegetables; produce
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Mexico: A Death in the Desert
LoMonaco and Spicuzza follow the story of Matias Garcia, a chili pepper farmer from Oaxaca, Mexico, who died in the Arizona desert after he crossed the border trying to find work. His family survived the journey, and in this story, they talk about their experience and the ordeals faced by thousands of other migrant workers.
Tags: Mexican migrant workers; Arizona desert; border crossing; Mexican Consulate; Border Patrol