Frankie Fouganthin, Sign for Syrian refugees arriving at the Stockholm train station, 2015 (Source: Wikimedia Commons, CC4.0)
Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution
to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.
The following searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books. Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel. In examples #1, 3 and 4 below, using keywords [Any Field in Tripod] (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.
("chinese foreign countries" OR "indians foreign countries" OR (chinese AND indenture*) OR (india* AND indenture*)) AND (women* OR gender*) [Any Field]
("united states" AND "civil war") AND (enslaved OR slave* OR abolition OR emancipation) [All Subjects]
Limited to publications 2013-2023
("fast food" OR "junk food") [Any Field] AND (transnational* OR global OR local OR "developing countries") [Any Field]
** Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.
An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records for material owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan. Use the button to place requests. Also note that reports are often listed with open access URLs.