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West Indian Emigration to England

Your search for information on West Indian emigration to England can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on your subject. The specific call numbers for your topics may be found by searching the online catalog. Try the following Library of Congress Subject Headings but remember that this list is by no means conclusive. Additional books can be found by using the keyword search feature in the online catalog.

You may wish to use of the following Library of Congress subject headings to begin your search

Acculturation Emigration and immigration
Cultural conflict Emigration and immigration – History
Culture Emigration and immigration – Great Britain

Selected Books

Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities and Cultures Around the World

REF HT108.5 .E53 2002

Encyclopedia of World Cultures

REF GN307 .E53 1991

West Indian Migrants; Social and Economic Facts of Migration From the West Indies

South Stacks JV7331 .D3

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and

Daily Living

REF GN333 .W67 1998


Journal Articles

Journal and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic.  Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general.  Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. 

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below.  These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic.  Conduct your search in these databases by using subject headings and keywords similar to those you used to locate books.

EBSCOhost
 Ethnic News Watch

GaleNet

NewsBank

Proquest Newspapers

 

For remote access to the library databases, see E-Resource Login & Searching Options.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.


Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research.

Bound For Britain: Experiences of Immigration to the UK
 http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot11/snapshot11.htm

Emigration and Immigration
 http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/pamphlets/IssuesinBritishHistory/IssuesinBritishHistoryPamphlets/emmigration_and_immigration.htm

Moving Here – Migration Histories - Caribbean
 http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/caribbean/caribbean.htm

Short History of Immigration
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/short_history_of_immigration.stm

 

 

 

 

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