7th GR: Refugee Resource Guide

Sample articles

• Leonard, Thomas M. “Balseros.” Encyclopedia of Modern Latin America (1900 to the Present), Facts On File, 2017. American History, 
• Cuban Heritage Collection. "The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon." The Cuban Rafter Phenomenon, UM Libraries, 2014, balseros.miami.edu/. Nov. 2022.
• Díaz, Antonio Aja. "Rafter Crisis: 1994." Cuba, edited by Alan West-Durán,  Charles Scribner's Sons, 2012,
• Tkacik, Michael. "Cuba and the United States: Revolution, Nationalism and Enemies Next Door." History Behind the Headlines: edited by Sonia G. Benson,  Gale, 2001, 
• Grenier, Guillermo J. "Cuban Immigration to the U.S." [A Timeline]  In World History: The Modern Era, ABC-CLIO, 2022. 
• Nesvig, Martin. "Cuban Revolution and Cuban Immigration." American Government, ABC-CLIO, 2022, 
• "Mariel Boatlift." World History: The Modern Era, ABC-CLIO, 2022, worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/368566..

• Historic wave of Cuban migrants will have a lasting impact on Florida: An exodus of over 220,000 Cubans have come through the U.S.-Mexico border in the last fiscal year. Over 6,000 more were interdicted at sea in 2021.   Dec. 16, 2022, 2:14 PM EST  By Carmen Sesin

Other Cuban boater stories- if you want to learn more!

• "Camarioca Boat Lift." Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources, edited by K. Lee Lerner, et al., Gale, 2006, pp. 282-284. Gale In Context: Global Issues
• Klingener, Nancy. "Boats used by Cubans to cross the Florida Straits make a final journey." Miami Herald, The (FL), sec. florida keys, 19 Apr. 2017. NewsBank: Access World News.

Cuban migration by air

• "Cuban migrants use hang glider escape to Florida airport." Albawaba.com, 27 Mar. 2023, p. NA. Gale In Context: Global Issues, 

Sample image

• "Cuban Refugees during Mariel Boatlift." American Government, ABC-CLIO, 2022, 

Higher level reading, but good, detailed information:

• Campisi, Elizabeth. Escape to Miami : An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter Crisis, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2016. 
• Gibbs, Jessica. US Policy Towards Cuba : Since the Cold War, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. ProQuest Ebook Central, 

Sample websites

• A Guide to the United States’ History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, since 1776: Cuba

• The American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora

• The Cuban Exile History Museum 

• CIA World Factbook

Samples articles

• "Syrian Civil War." Gale Global Issues Online Collection, Gale, 2023. - (has two different reading levels)
• Pokalova, Elena. "Syrian Refugee Crisis." Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society, ABC-CLIO, 2022,
• "Syria: History." CultureGrams Online Edition, ProQuest, 2022, 
• Orr, Tamra. Syrian Heritage, Cherry Lake Publishing, 2018. 

Sample images

• "Syrian Refugee Girl in Turkey." Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society, ABC-CLIO, 2022, issues.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1984769. Accessed 16 Feb. 2022.
• "Syrian Refugees Mass at the Turkish Border." Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society, ABC-CLIO, 2022, issues.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1984760

Sample websites

• UN (United Nations Office for Refugees) - Syria
• CIA World Factbook
• UNHCR UN Agency for Refugees: Syria Refugee Crisis Explained

EXAMPLE EBOOKS (not a complete list - many others available)

• Browning, Christopher R. "Holocaust, The: History." Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Lindsay Jones, 2005, 
• "Holocaust: Lingering Issues." Gale Global Issues Online Collection, Gale, 2020.
• "American Religious Communities and Nazi Germany." American Decades, edited by Judith S. Baughman, Gale, 2001. 
• "America's Response to the Holocaust." American Decades, edited by Judith S. Baughman,Gale, 2001.
• “Franklin D. Roosevelt and Human Rights.” A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. American History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=171442&itemid=WE52&articleId=369413
• "Rescue of Children." Learning About the Holocaust: A Student's Guide, edited by Ronald M. Smelser, vol. 3, Macmillan Reference USA, 2001, pp. 166-170. Gale In Context: Global Issues, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3034500225/GIC?u=pl3045&sid=bookmark-GIC&xid=3afcdb4c.

SAMPLE ARTICLES:

• Newman, Jason. "Kristallnacht." World History: The Modern Era, ABC-CLIO, 2023, worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/309785. 
• Salisbury, Joyce E., and Andrew Kersten. "Cruise of the SS St. Louis." American History, ABC-CLIO, 2023, americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/439083
• Konovitch, Barry J. “The Fiftieth Anniversary of the ‘St. Louis’: What Really Happened.” American Jewish History 79, no. 2 (1989): 203–9. 

SAMPLE WEBSITES:

• "Voyage of the St. Louis" United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 
• "SS St Louis: The ship of Jewish refugees nobody wanted". Mike Lanchin, BBC World Service, 13 May 2014
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• United Nations List of Holocaust Museums and Memorials

• Sobering Sites of Nazi Europe (Rick Steves Travel)

EXAMPLE PRINT BOOKS IN LIBRARY 

• The Holocaust Chronicle - a year by year account of the Holocaust - 940.5318 HOG   ALSO A WEBSITE  http://holocaustchronicle.org/
• The Encyclopedia of Judaism  296.03 NEU

Use these tools to search for books in the library (Accessit), or books online.