The Immigrant Experience: Library Research Guide
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Finding Journal Articles and Databases
Please ask a Reference Librarian to suggest
additional databases that might be useful.
Academic
Search Premier: includes articles from a number of academic journals
across all disciplines, including history journals. Covers 1975 to the
present.
LexisNexis
Academic: includes major national and world newspapers and wire services.
Minnesota
Magazine Index :an index of articles on local and statewide politics,
news, current events, history and the arts that appear in nine Minnesota
magazines. Coverage begins in 1991.
ProQuest
Newspapers: provides the full-text of the Minneapolis Star Tribune,
Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington
Post, as well as about 300 newspapers. Coverage dates vary.
Saint Paul Pioneer Press provides
the full text of local and regional news from 1988 forward.
Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600 to 2000:
An online archive of primary sources related to women's activism in areas such as immigrant rights, immigrant labor, etc.
Minnesota and Twin Cities Resources
Center for Victims of Torture
Resources, research, advocacy and healing services from this Twin Cities-based
agency.
Greater
Twin Cities United Way
Site provides a great deal of
information and numerous reports about the people they serve and assist.
Several reports (in .pdf) of interest, including:
Immigration
in Minnesota: Discovering Common Ground (.pdf)
Brochure (2002?) and overview data from the
Minneapolis Foundation
Immigrants
in Minnesota: An increasingly diverse population (2000)
Report from the Minnesota State Demographic Center
Minnesota
Refugee Health Services
Information and status reports on immigrant health, from the Minnesota
Department of Health.
Speaking
for Themselves: A survey of Hispanic, Hmong, Russian, and Somali immigrants
in Minneapolis-St. Paul (2000) from the Wilder Foundation
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Hmong Immigrants
Hmong: An
introduction to their history and culture (.pdf)
From the Cultural Orientation Resource Center (Center for Applied Linguistics,
Washington, D.C. -- http://culturalorientation.net)
Hmong Center
From the Hmong Cultural and Resource Center of Minnesota. Includes Hmong
links and an extensive resource library, including the scholarly Hmong
Studies Journal, available online.
Hmong Culture from Lao Family
Community of Minnesota
Hmong
immigrants in Minnesota
From the Greater Twin Cities United Way
Hmong Times
Twin Cities newspaper serving the Hmong community
Minnesota Hmong Chamber of Commerce
Organization serving Hmong businesses
This is
Home from Minnesota Public Radio (1999)
Somali Immigrants
Cultural
Orientation Resource Center
Somali-Bantu
Cultural Profile (2003)
Somali
Fact Sheet (1993)
Great
Twin Cities United Way
Tipsheet on Somali culture in Minnesota
Somalia
From Middle Eastern Studies Links at the University of Oklahoma
Somalia Overview
Learn about the country. From Arab.net.
Somali
history, culture and customs
From the Minnesota Department of Human Rights
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Mexican Immigrants
Chicano-Latinos
in Minnesota
Reports and statistics from the Chicano-Latino Affairs Council, a Minnesota
government agency.
HACER (Hispanic
Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research)
Nonprofit agency providing research, reports and publications on Hispanic
people in Minnesota.
Hispanic
Immigrants in Minnesota
From the Greater Twin Cities United Way
Minnesota
State and Community Services
Population and projections on Minnesota's Hispanic community
Tibetan Immigrants
Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota
Serves the local Tibetan community.
Russian Immigrants
Russians
Immigrants in Minnesota from the Greater Twin Cities United Way
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Finding Books: Using CLICnet
Use CLICnet to search
for books and videos in the Library at St. Kate's and the other ACTC colleges.
Some examples of searches follow:
hmong americans
minnesota and somali
mexico and immigra* (will find immigration, immigrants,
etc.)
tibet and rights
Background Resources: Reference Books
Dictionaries and encyclopedias offer extensive background information
on topics, often including bibliographies, or lists of other resources.
The following sources can be found in the Reference area of the St. Paul
campus library:
American Immigrant Cultures: Builders
of a Nation
Ref E184.A1 A63448 (1997).
Articles arranged by ethnic group.
Countries and Their Cultures
Ref. GN 307 .C68 (2001) 4 vols.
Provides cultural descriptions of 225 countries.
Encyclopedia of American Immigration
Ref. JV 6465 .E53 (2001)
Includes immigration history and issues, immigrant groups in America,
and immigration documentation and primary documents.
Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies
Ref. GN 495.6 .C37 (2004)
Covers topics, individuals and ethnic groups.
Ethnic Groups Worldwide
Ref. GN 325 .L46 (1998)
Descriptions of the major indigenous groups of Europe, Africa, Asia and
the Pacific, and the Americas, and the issues they face in the late 1990s.
Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America
Ref. E 184.A1 G14 (1995)
Articles arranged by ethnic group. Includes primary documents, bibliographies,
research centers, and organizations.
Immigration
REF. JV 6483 .G74 (2002)
Useful discussion of issues, viewpoints, trends, U.S. politics and policy.
Includes relevant primary documents.
Immigration and the Law: A Dictionary
Ref. KF 4817 .H56 (1999)
Defines terms and issues regarding immigration.
Endangered Peoples of the World
Ref call numbers vary (2001)
Peoples of the World
Ref call number vary (1993)
Profile in Minnesota (The Center
for Cross-Cultural Health)
Reference Desk and Ref. RA 418.5 T73
These pamphlets provide health care professionals with some general cultural
information.
- Albanian culture
- Bosnian culture
- European culture
- Hmong culture
- Nuer culture
- Russian culture
- Somali culture
- Ukrainian culture
- Vietnamese culture
They chose Minnesota : a survey of the state's ethnic groups
Ref. F 615.A1 T45 (1981)
A survey of the state's ethnic groups before 1980.
United States Immigration: A Reference Handbook
Ref. JV 6465 .M55 (1996) (Also available as an e-book)
Contains an overview of immigration to the United States, detailing
chronology, facts and data, primary source materials, and organizations
and agencies.
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life
Ref. GN 333 .W67 (1998) 4 vols.
Profiles of over 500 cultural groups worldwide.
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Additional Web sites
Center for Immigration Studies (http://www.cis.org)
Provides documents on immigration issues (statistics, history, legal and illeagal, national security, assimilation, etc.) and current news articles. From the CIS web site: "
The Center
for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research
organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted
exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic,
fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States ...
It is the Center's
mission to expand the base of public knowledge and understanding of the
need for an immigration policy that gives first concern to the broad national
interest. The Center is animated by a pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision
which seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted. "
Migration Policy Institute ( http://www.migrationpolicy.org/ )
U.S. and global immigration issues and data. Provides country profiles, statistics, analysis. Some U.S. historical info dates back to 1800s.
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