Keywords that may lead you to news reporting about migration in Africa may include the following:
To locate keywords from an article, to find another articles on this topic from a different press, I look for specific or descriptive terms. In a news article, these keywords are likely found in the title or beginning paragraph.
Sample Article #1:
Morocco rebuffs EU request to re-admit third-country migrants (Reuters)
Sample Search:
Based on reading the article title and skimming its content, I decided to use the following keywords in a search in Newsbank.
Sample Article #2:
This led me to a related article but from Morocco World News rather than Reuters.
"Moroccan FM: Morocco a Reliable, Responsible Partner to EU." Morocco World News (Rabat, Morocco)
To search for specific phrases, enclose them in double quotes. The database will search for those words together in that order.
"African Union Commission"
"migration policies"
"International Organization for Migration"
Join together search terms in a logical manner.
AND - narrows searches, used to join dissimilar terms
OR - broadens searches, used to join similar terms
migration OR migrants OR mobility
AND
"North Africa" OR Algeria OR Morocco
Take advantage of database functionality.
Look for Filters or Limiters.
This may allow you to narrow to a specific Date Range or Source Location.
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