This document provides an introduction and guidance for students completing a final interview paper on migration history, immigration policy perspectives, ethnic identity, and community/economic well-being. It outlines library resources for citations and full text articles, and search tips for keywords, databases, and connecting concepts. Students are instructed to search multiple databases and sources using specific ethnic groups, locations, histories, and concepts related to their topic. Contact information is provided for the instructor Tiffini Travis for any research questions.

1. Sociology 358
Introduction to research for your Final Interview Paper

2. Library Terms.

3. CITE/CITE NOW/ CITATION
Look for these to find the
APA/MLA citation
generators
Getting to the generators.

4. Get it @ CSULB
Getting to the full text.

5. Request an article
from BeachReach
Getting to the full text.

6. Your Assignment.
Migration History
Immigration Policy Perspectives
Ethnic Identity & Family Life
Community, Economic well being

7. Where to search.
Each subtopic may
require different
sources
Get Started.

8. What are the main issues.
What disciplines
study your topic?
Topic.

9. Tips.
Start with the Census labels
Use more than current
terminology
LOOK at how the database defines
your ethnic group
If specific country of origin search
with and without “americans”
Searching for Ethnic Groups

10. Cambodia
Cambodians
Cambodian Americans
Asian Americans
California
Long Beach
History
Adjustment
Discrimination
Concept B
Concept A

11. Created with Haiku Deck
Connect your terms.
specific way to
enter your
keywords

12. and
immigration and civil rights

13. Black or African American or African
or

14. Use the asterisk to
look for root
endings.
latin* looks for Latino, Latinas, Latinx, Latins

15. Use quotation marks to
search for phrases.
“social justice”
“ethnic identity”

16. What a search looks like.

17. SEARCH
STATEMENTS
Cambod* and adjustment or assim*
“Cambodian american” and immi* and policy
cambod* and “Long Beach”

18. Let’s Practice.

19. Finding the full text.
Get it @ CSULB
Steps for getting
full text
Request from
BeachReach

20. Click on Get It @ CSULB

21. Links to the OneSearch Page

22. BeachReach
We deliver it to you via link in your email

23. Look for citation generators
in the records of the article
DATABASES
ONESEARCH

24. Research Recap.
Search more than one database
Match your terminology to the
database
Use citation generators
Contact me BEFORE you get
frustrated

25. Tiffini
Travis
tiffini.travis@csulb.edu
Please put your
course and name in
the subject line!