Reference & Instruction Librarian
University Libraries Resources
Libraries Catalog: This can be an excellent resource for finding books, maps, streaming content, and more. Consider what keywords to use and also review the lists of subject headings in each result for additional search options.
Center for Maps and Geospatial Information: This department at University Park may be able to provide ideas or support to help you find what you're looking for. Their collection of subject guides under Geography and Earth Sciences is wide ranging.
The following suggestions are maps or atlases that could be requested or scanned for individual use
- The atlas of American migration [map] byCall Number: G1201.E27F5 1998Publication Date: 1998Available in the Reference Collection at Mont Alto
General Websites
- CIA World FactbookThe World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 265 world entities.
- US Department of State: Travel AdvisoriesProvides information on international travel
- US Department of State: Countries and AreasFact sheets and in-depth information for countries around the world
- Migration Policy Institute: Maps of Immigrants and Emigrants around the WorldUse our interactive maps to learn about international migration, including immigrant and emigrant populations by country and trends in global migration since 1960
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)Established in 1951, IOM is the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration and part of the United Nations system. Its work focuses on saving lives and protecting people on the move, driving solutions to displacement and facilitating pathways for regular migration.
- ION World Migration Report 2024The World Migration Report (WMR) is IOM’s flagship publication, having been produced biennially since 2000. The WMR responds to a clear and growing need for rigorous, balanced and evidence-based research and analysis on migration at a time of heightened interest in the topic.
The World Migration Report 2024 is the twelfth in the flagship series. In Part I of the report, readers can examine the key data and information on migration globally. The thematic chapters of Part II provide an evidence-based analysis of complex and emerging migration issues. - IOM Missing Migrants ProjectThe International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Missing Migrants Project records incidents in which migrants, including refugees and asylum-seekers, have died at state borders or in the process of migrating to an international destination. It was developed in response to disparate reports of people dying or disappearing along migratory routes around the world, and particularly in the wake of two shipwrecks in October 2013, when at least 368 people died near the Italian island of Lampedusa. The Project hosts the only existing open-access database of records of deaths during migration on the global level.
Social Media & Storytelling
Social media is not often "allowed" or "acceptable" in academic work, despite its capacity for storytelling and developing a shared understanding of the lived experiences of others.
As it relates to the experiences of migrants, social media can provide a first person perspective; on the flip side, it can be used by outsiders of the community to spread misinformation or a false narrative about an entire group of people.
- How does social media affect our understanding of migrants and refugees?by Anya Jhoti, COMPAS (University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society) Blog - 8/2021
- How Smartphones and Social Media have Revolutionized Refugee Migrationby Ivy Kaplan for "The Globe Post" (10/26/2018) and republished on the United Nations Refugee Agency
- Social Media and its Impact in Amplifying Refugee Voices and Storiesby Emma Wright for the Wilson Center - 12/2024
- Social media is revolutionizing migration into the US — and spreading dangerous misinformationby Harrison Hanvey and Julia G. Young, opinion contributors - 04/16/24 1:00 PM ET; from The Hill
- Social media and anti-immigrant prejudice: a multi-method analysis of the role of social media use, threat perceptions, and cognitive abilityby Saifuddin Ahmed, Kokil Jaidka, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen, Mengxuan Cai, Anfan Chen, Claire Stravato Emes, Valerie Yu and Arul Chibfrom in Frontiers in Psychology - 3/2024