Immigration Law

Indexes the literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes citations for journal and magazine articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Abstracts of journal articles are included together with selected full-text. Indexing goes back to 1964.

Provides a combined search interface and access to selected CQ Press publications including the CQ Almanac (1945-), the Political Handbook of the World (2005-), and the Supreme Court Yearbook (1989-). Offers links to CQ Press collections on the Sage Knowledge platform including Congress and the Nation (1945-2004), Historic Documents Series (1972-), Vital Statistics on American Politics, and the Washington Information Directory.

Features in-depth reports of political and social issues, including health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Reports include overview, background, current situation, pro/con views, chronology, and a bibliography. The issue tracker links to related reports. Coverage goes back to 1923.

Detailed floor votes dating back to August 1983 are easily retrieved from 1983-

Provides comprehensive indexing of United States legislative information: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws, congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Code. Includes abstracts. Some of the indexing goes back to the late 18th century.

Provides full text access to legal periodicals, books, government documents, legal texts, and other primary source collections in the legal field.
Subscription courtesy of the Charles Widger School of Law Library.

Tutorial for Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research which has holdings that include several time series and other types of aggregate data; its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse.

Provides access to archived social science data and data-driven learning guides designed for the classroom. Includes information about data management and curation services available to member institutions. See Qualitative Data Repository for qualitative and multi-method data.

Provides a full text archive of academic journals and books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. The most recent three to five years of a journal are usually not included.

Now Nexis Uni. Provides full text access to national and international newspaper and magazine articles and news transcripts, business, company, and industry information in the U.S. and abroad, and legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews. Coverage varies.

National Journal Group's Policy Central includes campuses-wide access to National Journal online, The Hotline, CongressionalDaily, Technology Daily and The Almanac of American Politics.

Access information on social issues through viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites and full text magazine and newspaper articles.

Provides citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, government documents, conference papers, research reports, etc. in the areas of public affairs, public and social policy, and international relations. International in scope. Formerly known as the Public Affairs Information Service.

Provides citations and abstracts to peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings in all major disciplines. Provides information on citing and cited references for each article.

Offers abstracting and full text of working papers in a variety of social science fields. Composed of several specialized research networks, SSRN promotes rapid dissemination of early research results.

Provides access to journals, books, protocols, reference works, and book series in all academic disciplines published by Springer.

Now Nexis Uni. Provides full text access to national and international newspaper and magazine articles and news transcripts, business, company, and industry information in the U.S. and abroad, and legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews. Coverage varies.
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Includes slip opinions and bound U.S. Reports cases and other documents.
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Official website of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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American Bar Association Preview of U.S. Supreme Court briefs from current and past terms beginning 2003-04 term.
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Searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: U.S. Reports 150-, 1893-). Browsable by year and U.S. Reports volume number, and searchable by citation, case title and full text. Includes opinions issued since September 2000 by the U.S. Supreme Court, all thirteen U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, and select state supreme and appellate courts.
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Supreme Court Toolbox from Cornell University School of Law.  Includes recent decisions, briefs, preview briefs, archive of decions (1990-present) and cases.
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Provides access to U.S. Supreme Court official site, decisions since vol. 1 of bound decisions, oral arguments and Supreme Court Historical Society.
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Focus on the U.S. Supreme Court from this encyclopedic guide to legal research from practicing law librarian, Andrew Zimmerman.
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Beginning with 101st Congress (1989) through current Congress, provides text of bills, public laws,  Roll Call votes and sponsorship and co-sponsorship by member.  All About Legislation of the U.S. Congress is available  at https://www.congress.gov/legislation/about. Other features include Browse Legislation providing Action on Legislation — Browse by Date, Days in Session, Roll Call Votes, Bill and Law Texts Received Today, Legislation Popular Titles and Short Titles.
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Includes year-end overviews of Supreme Court terms from 1989 to present, case summaries of every opinion written during each Supreme Court term, essays on the most significant cases from each year and the trends in each term, useful tables and figures on voting patterns and trends in constitutional law ,biographies of justices and reference documents for understanding how the Supreme Court works.
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The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. The Project also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality 'tour' of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some of the justices.
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Statistics about Supreme Court of the United States opinions and justices' votes.
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Detailed floor votes dating back to August 1983 are easily retrieved from 1983-

Provides comprehensive indexing of United States legislative information: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws, congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Code. Includes abstracts. Some of the indexing goes back to the late 18th century.

Now Nexis Uni. Provides full text access to national and international newspaper and magazine articles and news transcripts, business, company, and industry information in the U.S. and abroad, and legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews. Coverage varies.

A bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories; founded to improve the quality and effectiveness of state legislatures, promote policy innovation and communication among state legislature and ensure state legislatures a strong, cohesive voice in the federal system.

OpenJurist's mission is to provide access to published United States legal opinions, Code and legal resources without charge

Beginning with 101st Congress (1989) through current Congress, provides text of bills, public laws,  Roll Call votes and sponsorship and co-sponsorship by member.  All About Legislation of the U.S. Congress is available  at https://www.congress.gov/legislation/about. Other features include Browse Legislation providing Action on Legislation — Browse by Date, Days in Session, Roll Call Votes, Bill and Law Texts Received Today, Legislation Popular Titles and Short Titles.

Information from state legislatures, often including video, audio, calendars, meetings, bills, house and senate members, rules, budgetary information and state constitutions, etc.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is the national association of over 11,000 attorneys and law professors who practice and teach immigration law.

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization providing immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.

The Council of Europe is the continent’s leading human rights organisation. It includes 47 member states, 28 of which are members of the European Union. Council of Europe member states have signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights oversees the implementation of the Convention in the member states.

IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. IOM works in the four broad areas of migration management: Migration and development, Facilitating migration, Regulating migration and Forced migration.

The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide.

Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. We are dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ICE's primary mission is to promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration.

The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. It also has a mandate to help stateless people.

Provides international news, analysis and information in English and 32 other languages. Also includes a  BBC "News and analysis in your language" section.

The Guardian, formerly The Manchester Guardian, is a leading British national daily newspaper, associated with a complex organisational structure and international multimedia and web presence.
Note: Guardian newspaper articles are also available full-text in the Lexis Nexis Academic database, from July 1984 - to present. For more information, check the Guardian, World news guide.

24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. The station broadcasts news features and analysis, documentaries, live debates, current affairs, business, technology, and sports. The channel aims to provide both a regional voice and a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview.

Germany's international broadcaster that produces television, radio and online content in 30 languages. It provides a European perspective to its global audience and promotes intercultural dialogue.

International news channel broadcasting over the airwaves and over the internet in French, English and Arabic covering current events from a French perspective and conveying French values throughout the world.

Now Nexis Uni. Provides full text access to national and international newspaper and magazine articles and news transcripts, business, company, and industry information in the U.S. and abroad, and legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews. Coverage varies.

Provides full text access to the complete New York Times archive except for the most recent five years. Use NYTimes.com, Nexis Uni, or ABI/INFORM for access to current content.

Contains the full text of the Washington Post and its title variations from 1877 until seventeen years ago.

Offers access to the full text of articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. While most of the content is in English, some content in non-English languages is included. Coverage for most newspapers and magazines goes back to the early 1990s, but earlier content is also available.

Access information on social issues through viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites and full text magazine and newspaper articles.

The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. examines the demographic, economic, social and political impact of immigration in the United States and around the world.

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA), provides visa and travel information for foreign citizens at this site.

The Department of Homeland Security combined 22 different federal departments and agencies into a unified, integrated cabinet agency when it was established in 2002. The Department of Homeland Security has the mission: to secure the nation from the many threats it faces.

GovTrack.us, a transparency project of Civic Impulse, LLC, is meant to help ordinary citizens find and track bills in the U.S. Congress and understand their representatives’ legislative record by bringing together the status of U.S. federal legislation, voting records, congressional district maps, and more.

The Immigration Policy Center (IPC) is the research and policy arm of the American Immigration Council. IPC's mission is to shape a rational conversation on immigration and immigrant integration.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.

"The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School. Popular collections include: the U.S. Code, Supreme Court opinions, and Law about..."

Overview of immigration history and links to legal resources about immigration.  Lii is a small research, engineering, and editorial group housed at the Cornell Law School.

Migration Dialogue provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues.

A bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories; founded to improve the quality and effectiveness of state legislatures, promote policy innovation and communication among state legislature and ensure state legislatures a strong, cohesive voice in the federal system.

NILC engages in policy analysis, litigation, education and advocacy. NILC feels that it plays a critical role within the movement for racial, economic and social justice for low-income immigrants.

Congressional Research Service (CRS) provides authoritative and confidential research and analysis for Congress' deliberative use.

Explains how the U.S. court system functions. Includes answers to frequently asked questions.

An encyclopedic guide to legal research with the tricks of the trade from practising law librarian, Andrew Zimmerman.

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Authoritative source of information about members of Congress, their districts, the governors and the states. The Web site is organized according to people, districts and states, similar to the book. The most recent profile of a person, along with biographical data and voting behavior. A detailed description of a congressional district, along with several tables of demographic data, the district's 2008 presidential results and its Cook rating. Also includes a history and analysis of the politics of a state. The state pages also contain 2008 presidential election results, legislature party breakdowns, and analyses of demographic shifts that could affect redistricting for 2012.
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Provides full text access to legal periodicals, books, government documents, legal texts, and other primary source collections in the legal field.
Subscription courtesy of the Charles Widger School of Law Library.
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Now Nexis Uni. Provides full text access to national and international newspaper and magazine articles and news transcripts, business, company, and industry information in the U.S. and abroad, and legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews. Coverage varies.
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Census information about the foreign-born population, which includes anyone who is not a U.S. citizen at birth, including those who have become U.S. citizens through naturalization

Information about  state, congressional districts and counties can be found here. Data is a producte of The American Community Survey (ACS), the proposed replacement for the decennial census long form. It asks essentially the same questions as the long form, but the data collection will be spread throughout the decade, rather than at a single point in time, which provides information on a continuous basis.

Find a congressional district and locate a senator or representative by name, state, zip code.

This site shows census trends for states, cities and metropolitan areas to provide context for the 2010 Census releases.

The MPI Data Hub showcases in-depth and latest data on immigrant trends and patterns in the United States and around the world. Research tools include US State Data on the Foreign Born, Maps of the Foreign Born, the World Migration Map, Comparative Charts and Tables, the Global Remittances Guide, and asylum data.

Topic guide listing selected polling databases and Internet sources

Interlibrary loans are only available for books and journals which are not owned by Falvey. The EZBorrow service can be used for books which the library owns, but which are currently checked out. EZBorrow books are provided by a local library network and tend to arrive faster than interlibrary loans.

Use this link to locate journals or specific articles that may be available via Falvey Library.