Research Guides: Immigrants and Refugees: Find Journal Articles

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Policy Commons
Global database for public policy includes reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, and research centers.
PAIS Index
Public Affairs Information Service - covers both national and international public policy.
Immigration Law and Policy in the U.S.
A compilation of the most important documents and legislation related to immigration in the United States. Includes laws, regulations, congressional hearings, CRS reports, and Supreme Court Briefs. From HeinOnline
World Politics Review
Website gives context to the key trends and events in international affairs through nonpartisan, nonideological coverage of diplomacy, military affairs, energy, economics and other subjects that make geopolitics tick.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context
Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's social issues. Organized viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary sources, statistics, images, videos, audio files and vetted websites.
Anthropology Plus
Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK combines worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, and commentaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies.
PoliticoPro
This policy intelligence platform has constant feeds, and is a source of all news, legislation and socio-political/fiscal impacts. Created to help organizations who create, influence or are impacted by policy do their jobs.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
International in scope indexing articles and other formats in several languages, includes political science and international relations, including international law and public administration/policy.
ProQuest Congressional* (1789 to Present Day)
ProQuest Congressional (1789 to Present Day) provides full text access to congressional publications from the dawn of the Republic to present.
Social Science Research Network [SSRN]
Downloadable full text documents. SSRN is "devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences..."
AARN: Migration (Topic)
Anthropology & Archaeology Research Network Research Paper Series - Migration focused journal articles

Sample SSRN Articles:

Lynch, Timothy E., The ICCPR, Non-Self-Execution, and DACA Recipients' Right to Remain in the United States (June 16, 2020). Georgetown Immigration Law Review, Vol. 34, 2020, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3628600

Campbell, Kristina Michelle, Dreamers Deferred: The Broken Promise of Immigration Reform in the Obama Years (December 1, 2019). 40 Immigr. & Nat'lity L. Rev. 265 (2019), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4261492

Ryo, Emily, Representing Immigrants: The Role of Lawyers in Immigration Bond Hearings (July 19, 2018). Law & Society Review, Vol. 52: 503-531 (2018); USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS18-11; USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 18-11.

Gilman, Denise L., To Loose the Bonds: The Deceptive Promise of Freedom from Pre-Trial Immigration Detention (February 24, 2016). U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 644.

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