WOST 206 :
Migration, Gender and Globalization
Spring 2008 · Professor Svati Shah

Contents:

• Find background information
• Find books
• Find articles
• Relevant research guides
• Key websites
• Evaluating what you find

• $300 award for a paper or project of any length from a 100 or 200 level Wellesley College course (2 awards)
• $750 award for a paper or project of any length from a 300 level Wellesley College course, excluding 360s, and 370s (1 award)
• Deadline: April 1, 2008

• An Atlas of International Migration - Clapp Ref G 1046 .E27 S4 1993
• Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present - Clapp Ref JV6012 .I56 2005 (3 volumes)
• International Migration Policies. Clapp Docs U.N. Sales XIII 1998 8
• International Migration Policies and the Status of Female Migrants. Clapp Docs U.N. Sales XIII 1995 10
• Internationally Displaced People: A Global Survey - Clapp Ref HV640 .I516 2002
• World Refugee Survey 1983-85,1996- Clapp Ref qHV 640 .W63

Use the Wellesley library catalog to find books, videos, and journals (not individual articles).

Start with a keyword search to loacte items on your topic (e.g., citizenship and migration), then use subject headings (under the Full Record tab in the catalog record) to find other books on that topic.

some useful subject headings for your work in this course might be:

• Asylum -- Right of -- United States
• Emigration and immigration
• Globalization -- Social aspects
• Refugees (and related subjects)
• Women immigrants -- United States
• Women immigrants -- United States -- social conditions
• Transnationalism
  
  

• if our copy is checked out, click on to the right of the title to request a book quickly (2-4 days)
• If NExpress doesn't have it, click on in our catalog (2-4 days)
• Search WorldCat to find material we don’t own, click on and request through ILL (interlibrary loan)
• In a hurry? Get a BLC card and borrow the book directly from a nearby library

scholarly articles

• Women's Studies International
• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• Academic Search Premier
• Web of Science

news coverage

• LexisNexis Academic
• Gender Watch (1974 - present)
• Alt-Press Watch (1995 - present)
• Ethnic NewsWatch (1990 - present)
• Research guide: News resources

• POL2 383: The Politics of Migration - Librarian Betty Febo has compiled an extensive list of web resources on U.S. government agencies, migration within, from, and to the U.S., and migration between countries
• Women's Studies Research Guide
• Statistics Research Guide

Key websites

• Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
• Center for Immigration Studies (U.S.)
• HumanTrafficking.org
• Migration Policy Institute
• National Immigration Law Center
• Refugee Studies Centre
• UN High Commission on Refugees
• WHRnet - Women's Human Rights Net - news & analysis
• Women Immigrants 1945 to the Present: A Bibliography - Includes information about works published since 2000. Topics include health and medicine, law and government policy, personal narratives, sociology, and more.
• Women, War, Diaspora and Learning: Research Resources
  

Criteria to keep in mind when choosing and using soures:

• Accuracy - Does the author cite her/his sources and are they legitimate?
• Authority - Who wrote the source? Are they credible?
• Objectivity - Does the author have a bias, political or commercial or persuasive?
• Currency - Is this information new or based on outdated sources? Can you tell how current it is?

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Alana Kumbier • last modified: February 22, 2008