Other Resources

This list includes literature sources and global organisations that may be of interest to researchers studying expatriation. It is organised alphabetically for easy browsing. If you know of a resource that should be included, please get in touch with us at pr@xpatarchive.com.

Academic Journals and Related Literature

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal: The journal publishes research and analysis on the socio-demographic, economic, political, psychological, historical, legislative, and religious aspects of human migration and refugee movements from and within Asia.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review: The mission of the review is to foster an academic discussion on scholarly works and research pertaining to migration within, into and out of the Central and Eastern European region.

Citizenship Studies: The journal publishes research on the nature of citizenship, national belonging and identity, and the politics of inclusion and resistance.

Comparative Migration Studies: provides a platform for articles that focus on comparative research in migration, integration, and race and ethnic relations.

Demography: Original research in a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics.

Ethnic and Racial Studies: This journal aims to be the leading journal for the analysis of the role of race, racism, ethnicity, migration, and forms of ethno-nationalism.

Ethnicities: provides a critical, interdisciplinary dialogue on questions of ethnicity, nationalism, and related issues such as identity politics and minority rights.

European Journal of Migration and Law: A quarterly journal on migration law and policy with specific emphasis on the European Union, the Council of Europe, and migration activities within the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

European Union Politics: An international academic journal for advanced peer-reviewed research and scholarship on all aspects of the process of government, politics, and policy in the European Union.

GENUS: An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal of population sciences.

Global Networks: An international journal devoted to the social scientific understanding of globalization and transnationalism.

International Journal of Migration and Border Studies: The journal addresses the whole range of technological, human/social, political, policy, organisational, and managerial issues related to migration and border studies.

International Migration Review: Established in 1964, the journal is widely regarded as the leading scholarly journal in the field of international migration, ethnic group relations, and refugee movements.

International Migration: The journal covers the entire field of policy relevance in international migration, giving attention not only to a breadth of topics reflective of policy concerns, but also attention to coverage of all regions of the world.

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: The journal is from the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, studies from across the social science disciplines that address themes relating to ethnic relations, diversity, and migration.

Journal of Global Mobility: An outlet for research on expatriate management and other topics of global mobility. The journal caters to a community of scholars and practitioners interested in theoretical and empirical perspectives of physical global mobility as well as antecedents, correlates, and consequences of activities and phenomena associated with global mobility.

Journal of International Migration and Integration: Journal covering an array of subject areas including labor market integration; refugee status in various nations; adaptation strategies of immigrants in industrialized settings; racial and gender variations in migration; the role of social work in the integration of new citizens; and retention of ethnic and older national identities in new environments.

Journal on Migration and Human Security: The journal’s theme of “human security” is meant to evoke the widely shared goals of creating secure and sustaining conditions in migrant sending communities; promoting safe, legal migration options; and developing immigration and integration policies that benefit sending and receiving communities and allow newcomers to lead productive, secure lives.

Migration Letters: Journal investigating human migration via quick dissemination of research in the field through its letter type format enabling concise sharing of short accounts of research, debates, case studies, book reviews, and viewpoints in this multidisciplinary field of social sciences.

Nordic Journal of Migration Research: The journal publishes theoretical and empirical analyses of migratory processes, dealing with themes such as nationalism and transnationalism, ethnic relations and racism, border practices, and belonging.

Population Studies: The journal has reported significant advances in methods of demographic analysis, conceptual and mathematical theories of demographic dynamics and behaviour, and the use of these theories and methods to extend scientific knowledge and to inform policy and practice.

Other Archives

Ajam Digital Archive: An online database for media and materials from twentieth-century Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia and their environs. It also includes materials from the diaspora communities of these regions.

Arapesh Grammar and Digital Language Archive: The archive was conceived as a way of preserving, integrating, and disseminating some of the rich documentary material that has been produced in the Arapesh languages of Papua New Guinea.

Archive of Israeli Music: Collects all items connected to the subject of music in Israel and of Israeli composition - notes, books, photographs, recordings, etc.

Archives Portal Europe: Provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent.

Atria: Institute for women’s history and gender equality, based in The Netherlands.

Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council: Independent non-profit organisation founded as a voluntary association with the goal to foster cooperation between public and private archives, broadcasting and TV archives, libraries and museums that possess collections of audiovisual materials about the Baltic States, Scandinavian countries, and the worldwide Baltic diaspora.

Black Archives: Documents the history of black emancipation movements and individuals in the Netherlands. They have more than 10.000 books in the collections that focus on racism and race issues, slavery and (the) colonisation, gender and feminism, social sciences and development, Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles, South America, Africa and more.

Black Cultural Archives: An archival collection offering insight into the history of people of African and Caribbean descent in Britain.

British Cartoons Archive: Dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The archive holds the artwork for over 200,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books, and magazines.

British Library | Blogs: Blogs from the library’s curators, subject specialists, and guest bloggers.

Brooklyn Historical Society: The collections provide a wealth of historical evidence about the lives of twentieth-century and twenty-first-century Brooklyn residents, and reveal how diverse individuals and communities have sought to preserve vital social, political, religious, and cultural traditions as Brooklynites, New Yorkers, and Americans.

Burns Archive: Best known for providing photographic evidence of forgotten, unseen, and disquieting aspects of history with a focus on early medical photography.

Caren Archive: One of the largest and most important US-based private archives of original and rare newspapers, manuscripts, photographs, posters, broadsides, postcards, ephemera, etc.

Catena Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes: A searchable collection of historic and contemporary images that include plans, engravings, paintings, and photographs to teach landscape studies, integrate images and educational materials, and better simulate the experience of landscapes, among other goals.

CENTRO Library & Archives: It is a treasured place where researchers, academics, teachers, students, genealogists, filmmakers, and the community at large find primary (historical documents) and secondary sources about the history and culture of the Puerto Rican diaspora.

Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment: It is a nonprofit organization started in 1996, with the initial goal of documenting oral histories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II.

Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery: A web-based initiative designed to foster inter-site, comparative archaeological research on slavery throughout the Chesapeake, the Carolinas, and the Caribbean.

Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives: A publicly available archive of personal literacy narratives in a variety of formats (text, video, audio) that together provide a historical record of the literacy practices and values of contributors, as those practices and values change.

Digital Public Library of America: The library empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.

Digital Transgender Archive: The purpose of the archive is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.

Ethics of Suicide Digital Archive: This archive and its associated text volume are intended as a comprehensive source book, a collection of primary texts covering as fully as possible the immense range of thinking about the ethics of suicide in both the Western and non-Western traditions, as well as in both literate and oral cultures.

EU Migration Map: This interactive map shows the proportion of workers in some EU nations that come from other EU nations, based on skill levels.

European Oil & Gas Archives Network: A European network of professional archives, cultural institutions and companies related to oil and gas, with the purpose of promoting the retention and use of relevant archives and the sharing of skills and experience.

Europeana: It is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe.

Feminist Archive North: The archive holds a wide variety of material relating to the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) from 1969 to the present. Topics covered by FAN include the women’s peace movement, women’s studies, women and development, and violence against women.

Feminist Institute (TFI): Documents and celebrates feminist contributions to culture by preserving and digitizing archival materials for public access.

Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender History: A large collection of artefacts and stories from the 1950s to the present, focusing on the Texas Gulf Coast area. Facilitates education and research for all interested in learning about the GLBTQ community.

HSBC Expat Explorer Survey: See how countries compare for different aspects of expat life from personal finance to education and childcare.

IEHS Online: Promoting the Study of the History of Immigration to North America from all parts of the world.

Immigrant Archive Project: The project’s mission is to record, archive and share the stories of immigrants in the United States in order to help us understand the immigrant experience and its vital contribution to American society.

INED - The French Institute for Demographic Studies: A public research institute specialized in population studies that works in partnership with the academic and research communities at national and international levels.

International Archive of Women in Architecture: Documents the history of women’s contributions to the built environment by collecting, preserving, and providing access to the records of women’s architectural organisations and the professional papers of women architects, landscape architects, designers, architectural historians and critics, and urban planners.

International Dialects of English Archive: Created in 1998 as the internet’s first archive of primary-source recordings of English-language dialects and accents as heard around the world. With roughly 1,400 samples from 120 countries and territories, and more than 170 hours of recordings, IDEA is now the largest archive of its kind.

International Institute of Social History: The institute focuses on labour and social movements across the globe over the past five centuries.

Internet Archive: A non-profit digital library with the stated mission of ‘universal access to all knowledge’. It provides free public access to collections of digitised materials, including web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public domain books.

Iowa Women’s Archives: The archive holds more than 1200 manuscript collections that chronicle the lives and work of Iowa women, their families, and their communities. These personal papers and organizational records date from the nineteenth century to the present. They document the activities of Iowa women throughout the state and beyond its borders.

Jewish Women’s Archive: The archive documents Jewish women’s stories, elevates their voices and inspires them to be agents of change.

Language & Culture Archives: The archives contain works collected, compiled, or created by SIL International, its strategic partners, or members of ethno-linguistic minority communities.

Lesbian Herstory Archives: The world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities.

LGBT Community Center National Archive: Founded in 1990 by volunteer archivist Rich Wandel, the archive provides a look into the lives and experiences of LGBT people in the United States throughout the years. The archive contains a wide range of media from as early as 1920, including photos, correspondence, news clippings and videos.

Louis Shotridge Digital Archive: Created to make the remarkable Shotridge collection accessible to scholars, students, and community leaders interested in learning more about Southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture.

Marcel Breuer Digital Archive: A collaborative effort headed by Syracuse University Libraries to digitise more than 30,000 drawings, photographs, letters and other materials related to the career of Marcel Breuer, one of the most influential architects and furniture designers of the twentieth century.

Meredith Monk Archive: The archive documents the art of New Yorker Meredith Monk and the history of The House Foundation For The Arts, Monk’s management and production company.

Museum of Chinese in America: Since its founding in 1980, the museum has celebrated the living history of the Chinese experience in America by preserving and presenting the 200-year history, heritage, culture, and diverse experiences of American communities of Chinese descent.

National Fairground and Circus Archive: The collection embodies the history of popular entertainment in the United Kingdom from the seventeenth century onward, covering every aspect of the travelling fair, circus and allied entertainments as well as the culture, business and life of travelling showpeople.

National Jazz Archive: This archive holds the UK’s finest collection of written, printed and visual material on jazz, blues and related music, from the 1920s to the present day.

Native American Women Playwrights Archive: A collection of original materials by Native women playwrights of the Americas, hosted by Miami University. NAWPA aims to identify playwrights, collect and preserve their work, make it more widely known, and encourage performances.

OECD International Migration Database: Data sets to assist with quantitative research on global migration.

Oral Histories of Immigration and Innovation: Oral histories of 70 eminent scientists and engineers who immigrated to the United States in the 20th century. The oral histories provide moving testimony and insights into the nature of immigrant scientists’ scientific work and enterprise, as well as their struggles and successes in weaving themselves into the cultural fabric of American life.

Oral History Archive SMGI: It is a sizeable database with audio files and summaries of interviews with 724 persons about their experiences while living in the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia during the last period of the Dutch colonial presence (roughly between 1935–1962).

Prozhito: A Russian-language electronic archive of manuscripts, and a text corpus of personal diaries.

Public Secrets: Archival records of experiences of incarcerated women.

Rigler-Deutsch Index Computer Tapes: Computer tapes containing data from the Rigler and Deutsch Index of Recorded Sound, a union catalog of 78-rpm disc holdings from several major research libraries, including the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound.

Royal Archives: From diaries and personal letters to account books and speeches, the collections held by the Royal Archives record and reflect some of the most significant moments in British history and provide a fascinating insight into the life and work of past monarchs, their families, households and residences.

Seven Stories: A collection of all sorts of material relating to British children’s books — not just the finished work, but all that goes into the making of a book: rough artwork, draft manuscripts, dummy books, correspondence, editors notes, proofs, and anything else that helps us explore how books are created.

Travel Film Archive: A collection of travelogues and educational and industrial films — many of them in colour — that show the world the way it was between 1900 and 1970.

Turing Digital Archive: This website contains nearly 3,000 images of letters, photographs, newspaper articles, and unpublished papers by or about Alan Turing. The images were scanned from the collection of Turing papers held in the Archive Centre at King’s College, Cambridge, UK.

UCLA Library: The UCLA Center for Oral History Research (COHR) conducts in-depth, multi-session oral history interviews with individuals who have been a part of the history of Los Angeles and its many communities. It has robust collections on the history of social movements, communities of color, the arts, Los Angeles politics and government, and the history of the University of California, Los Angeles.

United Nations Population Division: The latest data, publications and other information about global population and migration trends.

Vatican Apostolic Archive: The archive pursues its specific activity aimed at preserving and enhancing the deeds and documents related to the government of the Universal Church. It primarily serves the Roman Pontiff and the Holy See and secondly offers its services to scholars of all faiths from all nations.

VC Archives: Visual Communications is the first non-profit organization in the US dedicated to the honest and accurate portrayals of the Asian Pacific American peoples, communities, and heritage through the media arts.

Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna: A scientific society with the goal of maintaining and fostering the life work of Viktor Frankl and to provide access to authentic information about logotherapy and existential analysis.

Wilson Center Digital Archive: The archive is a resource where students, researchers and specialists can access once-secret documents from governments and organizations all over the world.

Women and Leadership Archives: The archive collects, preserves, and makes available permanently valuable records of women and women’s organizations. Collection strengths include the subject areas of activism and women’s issues, authors, education, environmental issues, public service, social justice, and visual arts.

Women Artists Archives National Directory: An innovative web directory to U.S. archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists, active in the U.S. since 1945.

Women in Photography International Archive: A grassroots, research-oriented agency. Its origins date from 1971, starting with a systematic study of the women photographers of California. Currently, the emphasis has shifted to include data concerning the role of women in photography globally.

Women Working, 1800-1930: An exploration of women’s impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression. Working conditions, workplace regulations, home life, costs of living, commerce, recreation, health and hygiene, and social issues are among the issues documented.

Women’s Archives Initiative: Linking researchers with original materials on the history of the women’s movement in Canada.

Women’s Art Library: The library collects slides, artist statements, exhibition ephemera, catalogues, and press material in addition to audio and videotapes, photographs and CD-Roms. Donations from women artists to help develop this collection are welcome.

Women’s Library: The oldest and largest library in Britain devoted to the history of women’s campaigning and activism.

Working Class Movement Library: A treasure trove with records of over 200 years of organising and campaigning by ordinary men and women.

Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive: The archive's primary purpose is to create an academic site that will provide a repository of biographical, historical, critical, and other contextual materials related to Hurston’s life and work.