Claiming Citizenship: Membership and Rights in Public Discourse

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

• "Citizenship," in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. (online only)
• Encyclopedia of American immigration. 3 vols. (IC)
• Governments of the world: a global guide to citizens' rights and responsibilities. 4 vols., also online (IC)
• Immigration and asylum: from 1900 to the present. 3 vols. (IC)
• International migration outlook. Annual report by the OECD. (IC Stats)

• Emigration and immigration - limit by TOPIC on the left
• Human trafficking
• Sanctuary movement

• Citizenship acquisition and national belonging: migration, membership and the liberal democratic state.
• Narratives of citizenship: indigenous and diasporic peoples unsettle the nation-state.

For more, try SEARCH TITLE in Searchworks for series, such as: "Migration, minorities, and citizenship"
Hint: use " " for series.

*BROWSE call number JC571 in Bing Wing, West Stacks W4.
BROWSE online- limit by TOPIC on the left

• Citizenship studies
• Human rights quarterly
• National Journal

• Academic Search Premier - "choose databases" to add: Alternative Press Index, America: History and Life, Left Index
• Congressional Research Service Reports - for DREAM Act, current topics
• Refworld = Refmonde. A collection of databases developed by the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
• Research Library - ProQuest general database, add PAIS International in print(Public Affairs Information Service); good political source, 1915-, add more at the top of the page.

American identity
Newspaper resources

• F.A.I.R.: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting - media criticism, online news sources - including alternative news, publishes EXTRA! (online and in Current Periodicals)
• Znet: a community of people committed to social change
• Pew Research Center topics: Immigration