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Our Common Text 2004-2005
House of Sand and Fog
Resources Related to Immigrants and Refugees
Searching Wallace Library's Einstein Catalog provides information relating to immigrants and refugees. Remember, you can do a keyword search or a subject search to locate information on a topic. When doing a keyword search, you can make use of Boolean searching by combining your search words with the words and, or, not. Advanced searching will allow you to set some limitations to your search results. Below is a sampling of titles along with their call numbers and the floor location.
Bridges and Barriers: Earnings and Occupational Attainment Among Immigrants. HD8081.A5 K37 2002, 4th floor.
The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile. DS119.7 .T83, 4th floor.
Ethnicity, Crime and Immigration. Videorecording. ETC/Media Resource Center. VH-1355, #19. Library, A-Level.
Fast Food, Fast Track: Immigrants, Big Business and the American Dream. HD8039.H82 U7 2002.
Forced Out: The Agony of the Refugee in Our Time. HV640 .K57 1989, 4th floor, Over-sized Collection.
Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy. JV6471 .B675 1999, 4th floor.
The Hour of Departure: Forces That Create Refugees and Migrants. H31 .W67, #125, 4th floor.
Longing in Belonging: The Cultural Politics of Settlement. Ebrary Electronic Resource. Access via title search in Einstein.
Masses in Flight: the Global Crisis of Internal Displacement. Ebrary Electronic Resource. Access via title search in Einstein.
Pray God and Keep Walking: Stories of Women Refugees. HV640 .H291996, 4th floor.
Race, Ethnicity and Entrepreseurship in UrbanAmerica. HD2346.U5 L545 1995. 4th floor.
Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America. JV6475 .S77 2001, 4th floor.
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor. HD8081.A5 G55 2002, 4th floor.
Research Databases:
Click on the above link for the complete list of the RIT Library's Online Databases. Suggested databases are listed below.
Academic Search Elite: Provides information on a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics. It features full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.
Alternative Press. An index to over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
America: History and Life. Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Congressional Quarterly Researcher: The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each
week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
Contemporary Women's Issues: Focuses on timely and relevant topics and meaningful issues for women, including health, human rights, the work place, legal status, and more.
Country Watch: Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world: political, economic, and business information.
Historical Abstracts: Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Excludes North America.
Lexis-Nexis Academic: Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical and news and information from over 5000 sources.
SIRS Government Reporter: The ideal resource to locate information issued by the U.S. government on domestic and international affairs, scientific research, business developments, government procedures and military issues.
Sociological Abstracts: Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Wilson Social Sciences Full Text (part of OmniFile): Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, etc.
World News: African and Middle Eastern news, Asian, Pacific Rim and Australian news, Canadian news, European news, Mexican, Central American and South American news, United States news.
Internet Resources Relating to Immigration:
American Civil Liberties Union: Immigrants' Rights Project.
Human Rights Watch: More than 150 dedicated professionals work for Human Rights Watch around the world. We are lawyers, journalists, academics, and country experts of many nationalities and diverse backgrounds. We often join forces with human rights groups from other countries to further our common goals. A growing cadre of volunteers supports us. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide.
Immigrants' Rights: American Civil Liberties Union.
Immigrants' Support Network.ISN is a non-profit, democratic, and international organization with the main purpose to support all those legally trying to immigrate to the United States of America through the employment channel.
Immigration and Immigrants: Setting the Record Straight. Urban Institute, A Nonpartisan Economic and Social Policy Research Organization.
Refugees International. Organziation generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people around the world, and works to end the conditions that create displacement.
United Nations Refugee Agency:
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. In more than five decades, the agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. Today, a staff of around 5,000 people in more than 120 countries continues to help some 17 million persons.
U. S. Committee for Refugees. USCR defends the rights of all uprooted people regardless of their nationality, race, religion, ideology, or social group. We base our work on the belief that once the consciences of men and women are aroused, great deeds can be accomplished.
Maintained by Susan Mee
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