immigration research

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
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