Newspapers & Magazines
After selecting your topic and reading some background information, I would suggest to look for articles from newspapers and magazines to find out what various news organizations have written about refugee resettlement in general, or a specific group of people. We have national-level sources, as well as regional newspapers. If you are interested in what is being reported in other countries, try the International Newsstream.
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Traditional Weekly News Magazines (EBSCOhost)Search Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Economist (British) and Macleans (Canadian).
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News & Opinion Magazines (EBSCOhost)Search 18 magazines that either somewhat or definitely have political or religious leanings. If it isn't obvious from the title or the tone of the article, you can always google the title of the magazine and see what it says about itself, and what Wikipedia and other websites say about it.
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Google NewsGoogle's subset for finding news articles. Great for breaking news and seeing articles from a variety of news sources from around the world, but you will sometimes run into paywalls.
Scholarly Articles
Once you have a solid, general knowledge of your topic, you may have specific questions that only experts and researchers would have studied. Then you'll need to find scholarly journal articles. Below are suggested databases.
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Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost)Academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books, and videos in all subjects. You'll need to use the limiters on the left side, such as Date and Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed Journals
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EWU Library CatalogAlong with books, you can search for scholarly journal articles across virtually all of our online databases. Use the limiters on the left side, especially Peer-reviewed Journals and Subject Terms.
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JSTORFull-text articles from thousands of scholarly journals. The default is to keyword search the full article, so you can be very specific in your keywords.