Resources

 It’s hard to argue with how much technology is changing our lives. There’s an app for nearly everything now, and for international students studying in the U.S., they will surely make their experience living abroad much easier. Students who have just arrived should check out the following apps — most of which are available for both Apple devices and those that run on Google’s Android system.  

Inequality has become a universal concern. Differentials in access to opportunities, income, consumption, location, information and technology are now the norm, not the exception. For the majority of people on the planet, income disparities are greater today than they were a generation ago.   Read more here... 

As you walk pass the chumps taking off their belts and shoes in the TSA airport security line, past the harried travelers opening their laptops and waiting for the scans of their carry-ons to be completed, it's probably best if you just smile casually and skim your fingers across the brim of your fedora in a polite salute. You're headed for the express line. The line lurkers will wonder: Is he a diplomat? Special forces? Government agent? Who could possibly qualify to skip the security checkpoint and stroll to their gate with such savoir-faire?

People of African descent have migrated to Philadelphia since the seventeenth century. First arriving in bondage, either directly from Africa or by way of the Caribbean, they soon developed a small but robust community that grew throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although African Americans faced employment discrimination, disfranchisement, and periodic race riots in the 1800s, the community attracted tens of thousands of people during World War I’s Great Migration. Drawn by the promise of jobs during the two world wars, Philadelphia’s African Americans created one of the largest black communities in the urban North in the twentieth century. Deindustrialization and suburbanization from the post-World War II period to the early 2000s contributed to rising rates of poverty, racial tensions, and disinvestment in black neighborhoods, but the black community continued to attract new migrants.

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wH2O is an online, open-access academic journal for women and water issues around the world. Access issues of this interdisciplinary, globally-minded journal here.

The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) supports and undertakes research and provides a forum for debate on international migration. CMS carries out its mission in three ways: circulating books and monographs and publishing International Migration Review, a leading peer-reviewed scholarly journal specialized in the subject of international migration; organizing conferences and forums on international migration, including the National Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy; and maintaining an archive that collects and makes available documentation on the experiences of people in transit. The CMS webpage includes many reports detailing the Center's research.

LULAC Institute conducts research on a variety of important issues to the Hispanic community to both better inform the LULAC constituency and insure that LULAC's programs, services, and advocacy remain pertinent. This page includes a variety of research findings, policy recommendations, and reports pertinent to the Latin American community. 

CARE's archive of "Special Reports" documenting human rights, global health, and poverty issues around the globe. Most recent reports detail the situation in Afghanistan, microfinance, and HIV/AIDS education, among others.