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Immigration and Migrant Groups: Reference

A guide to finding information about immigration, immigrants, and migrant groups

Books in the Reference Collection

Reference books on North American immigration will primarily be in the call number area of JV 6465, including:

  • Encyclopedia of North American immigration: REF. JV6465 .P68 2005
  • Immigration in America today : an encyclopedia: REF. JV6465 .I4754 2006

A couple of more specific titles are in the HB 1965 section (demography):

  • Encyclopedia of immigration and migration in the American West: REF. HB1965 .E53 2006
  • Encyclopedia of the great Black migration: REF. E185.6 .E54 2006

For reference books on immigrant groups (for example, Arab Americans or German Americans), see instead the call number area E 184, for titles such as:

  • American immigrant cultures : builders of a nation: REF. E184.A1 A63448 1997
  • Encyclopedia of multiculturalism: REF. E184.A1 E58 1994
  • Encyclopedia of Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present: REF. E184.J3 E53 2001

Sample Reference Books