Primary Source Bibliography

 

Aljazeera. “UN: Millions of people face acute hunger in DRC.” August 14, 2017. Accessed September 13, 2017. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/millions-people-face-acute-hunger-drc-170814152529669.html.

 

BBC. “Living with violence in the DR Congo.” September 23, 2017. Accessed September 24, 2017.

http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-41346859.

 

Brown, Danielle. “Kirksville R-III Adapts in Order to Better Integrate Congolese Students.” Kirksville Daily Express, December 14, 2015. Accessed September 5, 2017. http://www.kirksvilledailyexpress.com/article/20151212/NEWS/151219704.

This article describes the challenges faced by this Kirksville school district when it comes to the language barrier as well as government funding for ESL programs. It briefly talks about how the Kirksville and Truman community has attempted to respond to the growing need for such programs, and it also provides some testimony about the experiences of some of the people who have immigrated from the DRC.

 

Department of Homeland Security. “Green Card Through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.” U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services. Last modified February 14, 2014. Accessed April 4, 2016.

https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/diversity-visa.

This website is the resource that prospective immigrants to the United States use to

research the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.

 

Moling, Troy. “Out of Africa, Into the Heartland.” KTVO.com, July 18, 2015. Accessed September 5, 2017.

http://ktvo.com/news/local/out-of-africa-into-the-heartland.

This article explains the motivations behind moving to Missouri from the Congo and how community ties are extremely important for a sense of overall wellbeing. It also briefly mentions other areas of resettlement for Congolese populations in Illinois and Indiana.

 

News24. “Kabila at UN pledges DRC elections but still no date.” September 23, 2017. Accessed

September 24, 2017.

http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/kabila-at-un-pledges-drc-elections-but-still-no-date-20170923.

 

Tomlinson, Mary and Shingo Isobe. “Local Congolese Community Shares Experiences.” Truman Media Network, February 23, 2016. Accessed September 5, 2017.

http://tmn.truman.edu/blog/news/city/local-congolese-community-shares-experiences/

This article provides readers with some knowledge of the experiences of the Congolese immigrants in Kirksville. It details their struggle to overcome the language barrier as well as why they chose to settle in Kirksville. At the end of the article, a figure with the number of diversity immigrants from the DRC from 2005-2014 can be found.

 

TownCharts. “Kirksville, Missouri Demographics Data.” TownCharts Kirksville, Missouri. Last modified 2015. Accessed September 25, 2016.
http://www.towncharts.com/Missouri/Demographics/Kirksville-city-MO-Demographics-data.html.
This website gives specifics on the current demographics of Kirksville, Missouri.

 

Secondary Source Bibliography

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Population Movements: Congolese Refugee Health Profile.” CDC Refugee Health Profile. Last modified August 29, 2014. Accessed September 4, 2017.

https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/profiles/congolese/population-movements/index.html.

This site details the population movement of Congolese refugees to the United States from various African countries. It has a graph of the number of arrivals in each year from 2008-2013 as well as a map indicating where the majority of these refugees resettled.

 

Kisangani, Emizet Francois, and Scott F. Bobb. Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010.

This encyclopedia details historical themes, events, and figures of the Democratic Republic of Congo, from colonization to present day.

 

Quinn, John James. Global Geopolitical Power and African Political and Economic Institutions.
London: Lexington Books, 2016.
This political science work chronicles the emergence and nature of African states during the periods colonization and post-colonization independence in the wake of World War II and the Cold War. This gives context to the geopolitical situation of the DRC.

 

Thompson, Emily. “Les motivations et les défis des immigrants du Congo à Kirksville: Projet

de recherche.” Undergraduate dissertation, Truman State University, 2016.
 This undergraduate capstone project uses interviews to describe the Congolese

population’s situation in Kirksville, Missouri, in 2016. It differs from Wilcox’s work in

that a) it is written in French and b) it does not sociologically analyse the acculturation process.

Images

 

U.S. Department of State. Secretary Kerry Shakes Hands With DRC President Kabila During a

Meeting After Both Officials Signed the COP21 Climate Change Agreement on Earth

Day in New York. April 22, 2016. Public Domain, U.S. Department of State, New York.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJoseph_Kabila_April_2016.jpg.


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