Researching Forced Migration: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources

by Elisa Mason

Launched September 2008

Welcome!  There are two options available for using this guide.

1.  Read through the chapters of the guide:

• About this Guide                                                                 
• Part One: Introduction to Forced Migration
• Part Two: Reference Sources
• Part Three: Information Sources
• Works Cited

PDF version (updated Oct. 2009) 

Photo credit: UNHCR/A.Kirchhof

2.  Locate information resources referenced in this guide using one of the following methods:

• by type of reference source (encyclopedias, handbooks, resource guides, yearbooks/annual surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, dictionaries/glossaries, geographic resources, image and multimedia resources, statistical resources)
• by type of information source (periodicals, book series, reports/research collections, people)
• by broad subject category, region or language
• by specific index term (from the International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology)
• by special feature ("Find out more about...International Refugee Law," "Find out more about...Humanitarian Assistance," "Definitions of Forced Migrants," "The Growth of an Academic Field of Study: From Refugees to Forced Migration," "Index to Bibliographies in Refugee Survey Quarterly")

This guide was made possible through a Carnegie-Whitney grant from the American Library Association (ALA). 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons

Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.