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MEGA SITES
Virtual Library : Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
http://www2.etown.edu/vl/humrts.html
Migration Information Source
Authoritative and current global data, country profiles, refugees migration issues. Recent and archived papers by migration researchers
http://www.migrationinformation.org
Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
Independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank
http://www.migrationpolicy.org
The European Research Center on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER)
This site, maintained by the University of Utrecht in Utrecht, Holland, offers one-stop shopping for migration- and immigration-related studies in Europe
http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/onderzoek/onderzoekcentra/ercomer/24638main.html
Check out their Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations, which maintains a collection of links to databases and research facilities around the world.
http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/
The Center for Immigration Studies
An independent,
non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank
devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social,
demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States. Restrictionist but scholarly
www.cis.org/
Social Science Information Gateway (Sosig)
Trusted source of selected, high quality internet information for researchers in the social sciences, business and law. UK site with European emphasis.
http://sosig.ac.uk/
United Nations High Commission for Refugees: the UN Refugee Agency
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
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SUBJECT–SPECIFIC
Emigration & Immigration (Librarians Index to the Internet)
http://lii.org/search?query=Emigration+and+immigration;
searchtype=subject
Internal Migration ((Librarians Index to the Internet)
http://lii.org/search?query=Migration+internal;searchtype=subject
CRInfo: A comprehensive gateway to Conflict Resolution Resources
http://www.crinfo.org/international/
Forced Migration Project (Council on Foreign Relations) Archived
http://www.osi.hu/fmp/
Mexican Migration Project / Princeton University
http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/
Welcome to Moving Here: 200 years of migration to England
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/
Push and Pull Factors of International Migration/
Eurostat & Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
http://www.nidi.nl/pushpull/index.html
Peopling North America : Population Moverments & Migration
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/
European Council on Refugees and Exiles
ECRE is an umbrella organization of 76 refugee-assisting agencies in 30 countries working towards fair and humane policies for the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees. Has asylum statistics on website.
http://www.ecre.org
Forced Migration Online
A world of information on human displacement
http://www.forcedmigration.org/
Peter Stalker’s Guide to International Migration
This guide offers a quick overview of the issues surrounding international migration. Some of the material comes from his first book on migration, 'The Work of Strangers' (ILO, 1994). Much of the more recent information has been extracted from the No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration.
http://www.pstalker.com/migration/
Council of Europe (Migration)
The Council ogf Europe aims to consolidate European cooperation in migration
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Social_Cohesion/Migration/
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PUBLICATIONS
REPORTS & STUDIES
Cooperation and Conflict in the Former Soviet Union:
Implications for Migration / Rand Center for Russia and
Eurasia
http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF130/
Migration & Geographic Mobility in Metropolitan and
Nonmetropolitan America : 1995 to 2000
Census 2000 Special Reports
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/censr-9.pdf
2003 Global Refugee Trends / Division of Operational Support, UNHCR
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/statistics/+rwwBme_Lxaewxwwwwnww
wwwwwxFqz6Xhvwq6m6mFqAIRERfIRfgIhFqAIRERfIRfgItFqA5BwBo5Boq5zFqAIRERfI
RfgIAFqAIRERfIRfgIDzmxwwwwwww5Fqw1FqAIRERfIRfgI/opendoc.pdf
Growing Global Migration and its Implications for the United States
National Foreign Intelligence Board, Director of Central Intelligence
http://www.odci.gov/nic/PDF_GIF_otherprod/migration.pdf
Migration of Working Children in Nepal
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/nepal/
Peace and Conflict Series / INSCR
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/peace.htm
International Migration Report 2002 / United Nations
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/ittmig2002/
ittmigrep2002.htm
International Migration from Countries with Economies in Transition:
1980-1999
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/ewmigration/
E-W_Migrationreport.pdf
Living on the Edge: Decentalization within Cities in the 1990s
Brookings Institute
http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/urban/publications/
berubeformanedge.pdf
Migration: an Economic and Social Analysis / UK Home Office,
Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs/occ67-migration.pdf
Querido Emigrante: Musical Perspectives of Dominican Migration
Hannah Gill, Transnational Communities Programme, Oxford University
http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/working%20papers/gill.pdf
Human Rights in Kosovo-Background Paper/ Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe
http://www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr/
The Shifting Pattern of Black Migration From and Into the
Nonmetropolitan South 1965-95 / Glenn Fugitt, et.al. at USDA,
Economic Research Service
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/rdrr93/
Levels and Trends of International Migration to Selected
Countries in Asia
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/Asianmigration/
Asianmigration.pdf
Replacement Migration: Is it a Solution to Declining and Ageing
Populations?
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/migration/migration.htm
World Population Ageing 1950-2050
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/
worldageing19502050/index.htm
World Population Monitoring 2001, Population, Environment,
and Development
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpm/wpm2001.pdf
World Urbanization Prospects: the 2001 Revision
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wup2001/
WUP2001report.htm
World Urbanization Prospects: the 2003 Revision
Data Tables & Highlights
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wup2003/
2003WUPHighlights.pdf
International Migration Policies, 1995
http://www.un.org/esa/population/pubsarchive/migpol95/migpol95.htm
Immigration Index
This site focuses on all matters relating to immigration and has hundreds of resources relating to: asylum and refugees, conflict, country data, deportation, detention, discrimination, funding, gender and more. Breaking news items are added on a regular basis.
http://www.immigrationindex.org/
JOURNALS
Forced Migration Review / Norwegian Refugee Council
http://www.fmreview.org/
Harper’s
An entrancing trip
through historical articles from Harper's Weekly magazine, several relating to
immigration and ethnicity and all valuable for teaching.
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/
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STUDY CENTERS AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
Intergrated Network for Social Conflict Research (INSCR)
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/index.htm
Center for Migration Studies ( Staten Island , NY .)
http://www.cmsny.org/index.htm
Institute for Public Policy Research
http://www.ippr.org.uk/research/index.php?current=19
Institute for the Study of International Migration
Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/isim/
European Forum for
Migration Studies (University
of Bamberg) in English
and German.
http://www.efms.de
The Center for Comparative
Immigration Studies
This site, based at the University of California,
San Diego,
describes its eponymous program and offers a group of useful hyperlinks to
online texts of working papers, as well as information on upcoming seminars and
conferences.
http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/
The Mediterranean Migration Observatory
The Mediterranean Migration
Observatory (MMO) was created in 1998 by Martin Baldwin-Edwards (formerly of
Queens University Belfast) and Prof. Xanthi Petrinioti, Panteion University.
In 1999 it was established as a research unit of the Research Institute of
Urban Environment and Human Resources , Panteion University of Athens.
http://www.mmo.gr
International
Centre for Migration Policy Development
ICMPD offers
you a wide variety of information on this website, its structure addressing
potential information needs of persons professionally and otherwise interested
in migration management and ICMPD’s
contribution towards this policy area. In addition, a search function allows
you to search for specific documents of interest.
http://www.icmpd.org/
IZA Database for Migration Literature
– Independent
Research Center
This database is constantly updated
and contains hundreds of references, including articles in journals and
collective volumes as well as recent working papers.
http://www.iza.org/
Center for Research in Ethnic
Relations (CRER)
The Centre for Research in Ethnic
Relations (CRER) based at the University
of Warwick is the major academic body
in the UK
for the research and teaching of aspects of race, migration and ethnic
relations.
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/CRER_RC/
Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and
Citizenship
The Centre for the Study of Ethnicity
and Citizenship has been set up in recognition of the importance of ethnicity
to the study of contemporary societies and polities, and prospects for social
justice and social cohesion.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/ethnicitycitizenship
LANIC ( University of Texas )
·
Latin
American Regional Resources – available in English, Portuguese and
Spanish
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/
·
Human
Rights
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/hrights/
·
Indigenous
Peoples
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/indigenous/
·
Middle
Eastern Diaspora
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/middleeast/
·
Jewish
Diaspora
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/jewish/
·
African
Diaspora
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/african/
·
Immigration
& Migration
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/immigration/
·
Society
& Culture in Latin America
http://lanic.utexas.edu/subject/society/
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GOVERNMENT SITES ON MIGRATION ISSUES
Briefing Room: Rural population and migration
US Dept of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/Population/
International Organization for Migration
http://www.iom.int/
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
http://www.osce.org/
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
This site offers a chronology (with text) of federal immigration legislation from 1790 to the present.
http://uscis.gov/graphics/lawsregs/index.htm
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STATISTICS
United Nations Common Database
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb%5Fhelp/cdb%5Fquick%5Fstart.asp
450 time series on numerous topics from 30 UN related agencies.
Note: From Home: FIU students, faculty, and staff only, click on "Connect from Home" on the Library's home page.
FAOSTATS
http://faostat.fao.org/default.jsp?language=EN
Agricultural centered databases, include population, land use,
irrigation, pesticide trade, etc.
World Development Indicators Online
http://devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline/
Statistical Information & Monitoring Programme on Child Labour / ILO
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/simpoc00/
index.htm
UNHCR statistics
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/statistics
Asylum Trends (monthly) / UNHCR
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/doclist/+YwwBmerdLVswwww
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IRERfIRfgIAFqAIRERfIRfgIDzmwwwwwwww5FqjIZu2g0acoAnaeT6jzlg2IRE
ReTGmwDmaQ0jbZ2yIacoAnaeTXjA0NyIeTGktqAIRERfIRfgI
Statistical Yearbook 2001 (UNHCR)
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/template/%2BRwLFqv5BwBo5
Boq5eUh5cTPeUzknwBoqeRzknwBo5Boqwce6lxxwGxddAeRyBDXWeRDlmqeIybnM
International Migration Statistics
Their mission: Grantmakers
Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) seeks to move the philanthropic field
to advance the contributions and address the needs of the world's growing and
increasingly diverse immigrant and refugee populations
http://www.gcir.org/about_immigration/world_map/europe.htm
Federal Statistics
Offers access to information from more than 70 Federal agencies. The site is fully searchable and has a "MapStats" feature that displays state maps according to parameters you choose
http://www.fedstats.gov/
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Offers access to federal statistics
and other information, primarily on labor issues but including educational
resources, from the Department of Labor. Use of the search engine reveals
numerous hits on immigration topics.
http://www.bls.gov
OFFSTATS – Official Statistics
on the Web - A site that provides statistics from around the world
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/
UK National Statistics
National Statistics Online – home of official UK statistics
Britain's economy, population and society at national and local level. Summaries and detailed data releases are published free of charge.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
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OPINIONS
Federation for Immigration Reform
Sponsored by an organization that
seeks to restrict U.S.
immigration, this site provides information supporting its position, as well as
some general U.S.
immigration statistics and a take on U.S. immigration history.
http://www.fairus.org/
Diversity Alliance
for a Sustainable America
A unique and
somewhat right-leaning organization that explores links between immigration and
overpopulation in the U.S.
http://www.diversityalliance.org/