Seeking Asylum: History, Politics, & the Pursuit of Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border

In this guide, you'll find resources to help you with research for the course Seeking Asylum:

• Resources to research background and contextual information on your topic and the approaches you might be bringing to your research (see links below)
• Places to find books in print and online
• Databases for locating articles, including scholarly and peer-reviewed articles
• Approaches to finding country-specific data and statistics related to a range of issues and topics
• Strategies for searching the open web, including social media and advanced search engine tools
• Resources for citing your sources and writing 
• Guidelines for getting required course texts for free via the Library

Image: Castelazo, Tomas. November 30, 2007.  "This is a monument for those who have died attempting to cross the US-Mexican border. Each coffin represents a year and the number of dead. It is a protest against the effects of Operation Guardian. Taken at the Tijuana-San Diego border." Via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0