SOC 259: Immigration and Transnationalism 

Course Guides supplement the departmental guides with information and resources specific to the topics covered in your course. Refer to the departmental guides for additional resources in this subject area.

Use PantherCAT to locate materials owned by the Duggan Library. Subject searching is most effective when you use standardized Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

In addition to the titles listed in the Reference Resources tab of the main Anthropology Guide, the following titles will provide additional information and context.

American Immigrant Cultures: builders of a nation
REFC E184 .A1 A63448 1997

CQ Researcher
REFC H35 E35 2008
(Look for the February 1, 2008 issue within this volume. It is dedicated to the Immigration Debate.)

Encyclopedia of Americam Immigration
REFC JV6465 E53 2000

Encyclopedia of Diasporas: immigrant and refugee cultures around the world
REFC JV6225 E53 2005

You may also want to consult our e-reference databases:

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Oxford Reference Online

The following Library of Congress Subject Headings may be used when searching PantherCAT, WorldCat, or other library catalogs:

emigrants
emigration and immigration
immigrants
immigrants - cultural assimilation
transnationalism

You may also subdivide other subject headings by time period, as in the following examples:

Biography - Middle Ages
Europe - history - 20th century

And don't forget that you can do a subject search on people by name:

Child, Julia (lastname, firstname)
Shakespeare

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