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MIGRATION/REFUGEES
"On The Move"

A refugee is a person forced to flee from his or her country of origin and seek safety elsewhere. Most escape persecution because of religion, nationality, membership of a
social group or political belief or economic hardship.

 Subject headings, keywords

Migration                                      Slaves                             
Refugees                                      Jews
Boat People                                  Irish                      
Displaced Persons                          Westward USA       
Exiles                                          Communism
Immigration and emigration              Christianity
War Victims                                  Islam
World War II Refugees                    Buddhism

Non Fiction Books
Many real life stories available on refugees in the biography section.

Dewey Numbers
304.8, 306.3, 323.4, 325.2, 325.73, 361.7, 362, 363.8, 909, 940.53, 941.5, 942.081,
973.8

  Reference:
World Book Encyclopedia REF 030
Encyclopedia of World Geography REF 910
Geographica REF 910

Information file
Refugees

On-line databases and websites
Refugees

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_lands Jewish
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005468 Jewish
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005139

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005593
http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/refugees?gclid=COnIqdnEr4wCFQNYYQodMxGhMQ
 (general article on refuges.. what is a refugees, why are they refugees, who accepts them?)
http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/topics/emigration.htm  emigration
http://www.sciway.net/hist/chicora/slavery18-2.html  African to America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade African slaves to America.
(Scroll down to "Triangular trade" and "African slave trade")
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html  African slaves to America
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAEireland.htm  Irish emigration
http://www.humboldt1.com/~history/lexiso/  Irish emigration/potato famine
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/wexpansi.htm   Why people went west.
(Scroll down to the paragraph starting “The pioneer spirit that existed in the 19th century”)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0816/p06s01-woaf.html   Somali refugees
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0620_030620_banturefugees.html Somali
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush

http://www.42explore2.com/goldrush.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/black-migration Afro-American movement from south to north
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USA1800.htm migration from Britain in 1800s
http://www.clans.org.uk/hist_10.html Scottish

http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/NewZealandPeoples  Pacific
http://epress.anu.edu.au/ssgm/global_gov/mobile_devices/ch06s06.html Indians to Fiji