Public Services Librarian
Introduction
The following pages include links to different types of sources that will help you find information relevant to the case that you are working on. This list is in no way exhaustive. As you explore the resource, keep in mind how you can use the different types of information.
- Government Resources - Resources on official U.S. immigration policy and statistics gathered on U.S. immigration.
- Non-Governmental Organizations- These organizations work with immigrant populations across the globe. The focus of each will vary by the mission of the organization, but they are generally from the perspective of immigration advocates.
- News - News reports are the most likely places that you will find pieces of the STORY of what is happening in the country of origins.
- Academic Reports - These articles will be included the library databases. Keep in mind that scholarly articles can take months to years to write. There may not be specific studies on the specifics of your case. However, you can find scholarly experts' findings on similar situations. These examples could be within the same country of origins or share similar conditions.
Background Research
Country Reports
- U.S. State Department Reports on Human RightsThe annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, also known as the Human Rights Reports, cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals and also includes many leading journals in the areas of economics, finance, and accounting, as well as country economic reports.
- From a US business lens
- Search for company and limit your search to "Country Reports".
- Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new windowGlobal Road Warrior is a comprehensive country database featuring in-depth information on 175 countries. Provides detailed insight into each country on many topics, including history, economics, geography, and travel essentials.
Reference Sources
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
Information Cycle
Information is created through a process. The type of information that you encounter within days of an event will be different than the type of information included in sources written months or years after the event has occurred.
General Search
Consort
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