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RESEARCH DATABASES (available only to CRLS students and staff )
ABC-CLIO - Social Studies Databases
Access World News - Student Edition - NewsBank
America's Historical Newspapers
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - Infotrac
Student Resource Center Gold - Infotrac
General Reference Gold - Infotrac
Global Issues In Context - GALE
Historical Newspapers - ProQuest
History Resource Center: US - GALE
Student Edition - Infotrac
SIRS Researcher
World Book Online Reference Center and Spanish-language Encyclopedia
E-BOOKS
WEBSITES
"Learn More" from PBS: The New Americans -immigration information, current issues, the immigrant experience, and much more. Primary Sources.
Library of Congress: American Memory - immigration groups: African, German, Irish, Scandinavian, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Chinese, Cuban/Puerto Rican, Polish/Russia. Primary Sources.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): Immigration Collection - official documents, government files, photographs and identification papers on famous individual immigrants as well as groups from throughout the world. Primary Sources.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Data, statistics.
Migration Policy Institute: Migration Information Source - migration data, countries of origin, refugees, current issues and U.S. government immigration policies.
MIT Center for International Studies - annual review of U.S. foreign policy, population data, illegal immigration, immigration and terrorism, border security, and immigrants? contributions to the economy.
U.S. Census Bureau: Immigration Data - estimates and projects native and foreign born populations with links to statistics on legal immigrants, refugees, asylees, temporary admissions, naturalization and enforcement.
National Conference of State Legislatures - Immigrants in the Workforce: Some Fast Facts
BOOKS IN THE CRLS LIBRARY
Series "The Immigrant Experience" includes:
The Chinese Americans 973.04951 DAL
The Cuban Americans 973.0468723 GER
Illegal Aliens 325.73 HAU
The Irish Americans 973.049162 WAT
The Italians Americans 073.0451 DI
The Jewish Americans 973.04924 MUG
The Korean Americans 973.04957 LEH
The Mexican Americans 973.046872 CAT
The Puerto Ricans 973.04687295 ALI
Series "In Their Own Voices" are books with teenage refugees speaking about their experiences coming to America. The series includes:
Teenage Refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina Speak Out 973.092 TEE BOS
Teenage Refugees from China Speak Out 973.092 TEE CHI
Teenage Refugees from Eastern Europe Speak Out 973.092 TEE EAS
Teenage Refugees from Ethiopia Speak Out 973.092 TEE ETH
Teenage Refugees from Guatemala Speak Out 973.092 TEE GUA
Teenage Refugees from Haiti Speak Out 973.092 TEE HAI
Teenage Refugees from India Speak Out 973.092 TEE IND
Teenage Refugees from Iran Speak Out 973.092 TEE IRA
Teenage Refugees from Mexico Speak Out 973.092 TEE MEX
Teenage Refugees from Somalia Speak Out 973.092 TEE SOM
Reference books
Teenage Atlas of American Migration REF 304.80973 FLA 1998
Atlas of Human Migration REF 304.8 ATL 2007
Encyclopedia of American Immigration REF 304.8 ENC V.1, 2, 3, 4
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America: Primary Documents REF 305.800973
Keys to American History REF 973 PAN 2009
Our Documents REF 973 UNI 2003
The Progressive Era REF 973.8 PRO 2004
U.S. Immigration and Migration Almanac REF 304.873 BEN 2004 V.1, V.2
U.S. Immigration and Migration Primary Sources REF 304.873 US 2004 & Index