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Migrant Education Resources

Books

Basic TMC Searching

Choose the Teaching Materials Collection in ONESearch to limit your search to ONLY materials from the TMC.

  • In MyRedDragon, go to the ONESearch tab within the Library Search box. It will be the first option that shows up!
  • Select "Teaching Materials Collection"
  • Type in your search terms and go! You can make your search even more specific once you're in ONESearch.

Filtering to TMC in MyRedDragon

 

For more information on searching the TMC, see the TMC Guide.

Suggested Subject Headings:

General:

  • Agricultural laborers (more specific: "Migrant agricultural laborers")
  • Education, Bilingual -- United States
  • Farm life
  • Foreign Workers
  • Migrant Labor
  • Migration, Internal -- United States
  • Multicultural education -- United States.
  • Rural Families

Migrant Workers' Rights:

  • Cesar Chavez
  • Child Labor
  • Labor unions -- Migrant agricultural laborers
  • Migrant Labor
  • Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers
  • United Farm Workers

Key words:

  • Farmworkers
  • Farms AND families
  • Names of specific crops, types of agriculture
  • Specific areas of the country + migrants ("California AND migrants")

Selected books from the TMC:

Subject Headings:

  • Emigration and immigration
  • Immigrants -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.
  • Refugees -- Juvenile fiction

Further ideas...

  • Combine "World Area" + Americans... for instance: "Mexican Americans"; "Chinese Americans"; or more broad cultural areas, "African Americans"
  • Search by country and Juvenile fiction ("Mexico -- Juvenile fiction")
  • Country and language

Also see the guide on Spanish/English books and Latino Culture for a closer look into this particular culture.

Selected books from the TMC:

Subject Headings:

  • English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers
  • Language and education -- United States
  • Language and languages -- Study and teaching
  • Linguistic minorities -- Education -- United States
  • Multilingualism in children
  • Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching

Key words such as: English as a Second Language/ESL, English Language Learners/ELL