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January 2018

    Making Sense of Immigration and Migration Around the World

    by Guest Author January 19, 2018
    written by Guest Author
    A person looking through a fence in Tijuana, Mexico
    Photo by Max Böhme on Unsplash

    Written by Carolyn Carpan

    With U.S. President Trump’s recent comments that labeled certain nations as “sh**hole countries” and the recent news regarding a U.S. crackdown on immigration, the Libraries’ want to share a database called Border and Migration Studies Online that helps researchers delve into the complexity of human migration. You can learn the historical background on more than thirty worldwide border areas, including:
     
        • The United States
        • Mexico
        • The European Union
        • Haiti
        • Korea
        • Syria
        • African nations such as Angola, Botswana, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, and Tanzania.

    Studying borders and migration gives insight into histories of countries and cultural groups, economies, human rights, gender, activism, racism, human trafficking, identities, nationhood, undocumented and unauthorized migration and border enforcement and control. The collection includes text, videos, and maps that can help you in your teaching, research, and learning about border and migration issues. You can learn why people migrate, issues they encounter, and how the governments of various countries deal with related matters.

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  • Making Meaning Through Metadata: Are We Being Culturally Appropriate?

    by Guest Author January 9, 2018
    by Guest Author January 9, 2018

    Written by Tanya Ball As a part of our commitment to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)’s Calls to Action, UAL has formed the Decolonizing Description Working Group (DDWG) who have been working tirelessly on our library catalogue and metadata. Metadata… that’s a scary word, isn’t it? It doesn’t have to be! Metadata is just the fancy word for describing all of this: It’s information about a material within the library. This…

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