Encyclopedias and Dictionaries provide "just the facts" - names, dates, events, relationships - and can provide you with enough information to start your scholarly research with confidance. The books listed here provide facts but also define key terms, identify key controversies or disagreements surrounding a topic, provide notes on a subject's historiography, and point you to further reading.
Encyclopedia of Diasporas immigrant and refugee cultures around the world by 
Encylopedia of Canada's Peoples by 
Women in global migration, 1945-2000 : a comprehensive multidisiplinary bibliography by 
Encyclopedia of Japanese descendants in the Americas : an illustrated history of the Nikkei / by 
The Kodansha bilingual encyclopedia of Japan = [taiyaku Nihon jiten].
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