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THE NEW AMERICANS SERIES GUIDE AND ACTIVITY BOOK Resources for Further Research This section includes additional resources and references on relevant topics and web links to related organizations for further exploration into the issues from The New Americans Series Guide for students, community organizations and education and health professionals.
 Resources for ESOL Educators Beginning to Work with Adult English Language Learners: Some Considerations (2001, ERIC Q & A) http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/beginQA.htm The National Center for ESL Literacy Education http://www.cal.org/ncle http://www.cal.org/ncle/DIGESTS/trauma2.htm Trauma and the Adult English Language Learner (2000, ERIC Digest) http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/trauma2.htm Refugees as English Language Learners: Issues and Concerns (1999, ERIC Q & A) http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/Refugee.htm Mental Health and the Adult Refugee: The Role of the ESL Teacher (1999, ERIC Digest) http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/mental.htm Using Video with Adult English Language Learners (1999, ERIC Digest) http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/Video.htm Social Identity and the Adult ESL Classroom (1997, ERIC Digest) http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/Socident.htm Cross-Cultural Issues in Adult ESL Literacy (1993, ERIC Digest) http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/CROSS_CULTURAL.HTML Civic Participation and Citizenship Collection from New England Literacy Resource Center http://www.nelrc.org/cpcc/index.htm Adult Education for Social Justice/Immigration Issue from New England Literacy Resource Center http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent/pdf/issue11webversion.pdf Civic Participation and Community Action Sourcebook http://literacytech.worlded.org/docs/vera/index1.htm Teaching survivors of torture and trauma - online discussion (and resources) from the Australian National Center for English Language Teaching and Research. http://www.nceltr.mq.edu.au/pdamep/june/feature.htm Trauma and Adult Learning - ERIC Digest No. 239 by Sandra Kerka, 2002 http://cete.org/acve/docgen.asp?tbl=digests&ID=124 Resources for Newcomers The Cultural Orientation Resource Center at the Center for Applied Linguistics develops materials to help refugee newcomers understand fundamental aspects of life in the US. You can download a guidebook for refugees at: http://www.cal.org/corc/ http://www.culturalorientation.net/welcome/ Health Resources The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world. http://ethnomed.org NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (Multicultural Communication) provides information and services to assist health professionals to communicate with non-English speaking communities. http://mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/ The Cross Care Cultural Healthcare Program http://www.xculture.org/ The Center for Cross-Cultural Health http://www.crosshealth.com/ This site provides information on trauma related issues immigrants and refugees. http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/refugee_health.htm A project of the U.S. Department Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health http://www.4woman.gov/HealthPro/cultural/ Culture & Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide / edited by Juliene G. Lipson, Suzanne L. Dibble, Pamela A. Minarik. San Francisco: UCSF Nursing Press, c1996. Research Themes for Students and Community Organizations The following is a list of themes separated by country to give students and community organizations using the New Americans Series Guide an opportunity to gain a better historical understanding of key factors bringing immigrants and refugees to the United States.
General Research Topics Recruitment of Foreign Athletes Dominican Republic: Yours to Discover (Baseball Section) http://dominicanrepinfo.com/Baseball.htm This link gives a general overview about the history of baseball in the Dominican Republic. The last section, "Baseball in the Dominican Republic Today," discusses summer leagues, player recruitment, salaries, and the fact that 20 Major League (American) teams have baseball training camps in the country. Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz. http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-34191-4.pdf This link leads to a PDF of the first chapter of the book, The "Golden Age" of Latin American Talent in Major League Baseball. Worldwide Draft http://baseballguru.com/articles/analysismarcano01.html Viva Baseball! Latin American Players and Their Special Hunger, Book Review from Hispanic Magazine http://www.hispanicmagazine.com/1999/apr/Cultura/#Top This link provides readers with an excerpt from the first chapter of the book. Overview: The successes of today's Hispanic ballplayers are not surprising. Ken Saro Wiwa Biography and Writings Post-Colonial Web: Ken Saro-Wiwa A primer on the man and his work. http://www.postcolonialweb.org/sarowiwa/sarowiwaov.html Sierra Club: International Campaigns: Nigeria Background and information on the Ogoni struggle against Shell Oil and the Nigerian government. http://www.sierraclub.org/human-rights/nigeria/ Earthlife Africa: Nigeria / Shell Oil Fact Sheet Includes the Ogoni Bill of Rights. http://www.earthlife.org.za/factsheets/fs-nigeria.htm Shell Oil in the McSpotlight Includes links to MOSOP information, as well as Amnesty International, Sierra Club, and Earthlife Africa campaigns regarding Shell Oil in Nigeria. http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/companies/shell.html Access to water for Mexican farmers Waterwatch - Monsanto and water privatization An article by Vandana Shiva about Monsanto and its profits from the privatization of water in Mexico and India. http://www.portaec.net/library/food/waterwatch.html Inter-American Water Resources Network Lists links and abstracts to approximately 20 articles and publications. Includes articles about water management, water privatization, and sustainable water solutions. http://www.iwrn.net/resources/InfoRes/pubs.htm |
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