Asian American History
Rahanmet
0900Paperinstructions.docxASN 114/0900 – Asian American History Migration paper: 4 pages
Migration Paper instructions DUE December 17th @ 11:59pm
The migration paper is an opportunity to research one person’s migration experience and place it in the context of larger migration history. Using primary data (the interview) and scholarly sources, you will write a four-page paper (this does not include works cited page).
As your write your paper, keep the following guiding principle in mind:
Individual choice does not sufficiently explain how or why migration occurs. An analytical approach to immigration attempts to understand individual "choices" that shaped both pre and post migration experience as being made within a broader context.
The best papers will take an analytical approach – this will be done by going beyond your interviewee’s particular story and considering how it fits into larger topics and concerns.
Your project must contain
· 4 scholarly sources which help contextualize and/or support your project.
· Quotes, points and summaries of scholarship you use must be cited using in-text citation format, i.e. (Author, p#). So (Tang, 22).
· If you are using a general idea or point from the article (not tied to a particular page) you just use the authors name, i.e. (Warikoo)
· The citation should appear right after the point. If at the end of the sentence, it should come before the period.
· Quotes, summary and points from your interview which support your thesis.
Title: your title should give a good indication of what you will address in your paper. Get help from your theme words here.
Good title: Nursing and remittances in my family’s history
Bad title: My mother’s migration from India
Introduction: Your introductory paragraph should take the reader right to the story and content of the paper. Can you open with a snippet from the interview that you think nicely illustrates the content of your paper? And you open with a point from your scholarly sources that nicely illustrates the content of your paper?
DO NOT open with a generic, broad assumption: People have been migrating to better their lives since time begin.
Unless your paper traces the history of migration this is a bad opening that tells the reader nothing about the content of your paper.
Thesis: Your thesis statement should appear in the introductory paragraph or section.
The thesis statement acts, among many other things, that you are about to provide evidence and writing to support your argument.
Body: The body of your paper will present the evidence to support your argument. This is where both scholarly sources and primary data will be discussed.
Like Warikoo, you can divide your paper into scholarly and primary data sections. However, like Warikoo you must intertwine them to contextualize both why the scholarly sources are important to you AND how it helps us understand the primary data you are using.
Thus the two types of data should be intertwined.
Conclusion: Do not just summarize your paper in the conclusion. Rather your conclusion should articulate key take aways from your paper and introduce questions for further study.
This is the place to consider how your particular research contributes to larger questions. This is sometimes referred to as the “why should we care?” question.
Works Cited: Include your scholarly source in the Works Cited section which appears after the body of the paper. The Works Cited WILL NOT count towards the page length.
Examples from readings for inspiration and/or guidance:
· Aviv, The Cost of Caring
· Warikoo, Cosmopolitan Ethnicities
Your paper must be typed 12
You will turn your paper in using the TURNITIN button on Blackboard. This button will be on the top of the left-hand menu starting 12/11.
No late papers will be accepted. The TURNITIN button will disappear once the deadline has passed. The steps throughout the semester were designed to keep you on track to the final paper.
DO NOT email me your paper unless I give you permission to do so.
