Overall: Create a geographic question to compare an African country to another to analyze issues related to population, health, and/or migration. Then find 3-4 sources and summarize them.
First: formulate the question
Must be in the form of a question.
Clearly specify a single geographic issue related to population, health, and/or migration. Identify two specific places (one must be in Africa) to use as your comparison case studies. The places you compare should be at similar scales of analysis and make sense as comparative case studies for this issue.
b. Explanation of case study choices
c. Preliminary Hypotheses and Data Needs (a list of variables and a couple sentences)
A geographic research question has three elements: It asks where the issue is occurring and why and how it is occurring there, and what the consequences of the issue are on peoples, places, or environments. Phrase your question so that these three elements are evident.
Justify your choice of case studies. Why are these two places good choices for analysis of this specific issue?
Then find 3-4 sources.
Goal: Analyze how the local characteristics found at that place (cultural,
economic, political, environmental) affect how the global processes actually occur there.
Find journal articles, research reports, book chapters, and other sources relevant to your topic. Aim
for 3-4 meaningful items to review for this Annotated Bibliography.
Then, synthesize information from these sources into a coherent explanation of the background and context of your comparative case studies.
Questions to Address in Each Annotation
Each annotation that follows a citation should just be a few informative sentences long,
succinctly addressing these 5 questions:
1. What was the primary research question that drove this study?
2. How did the authors frame their study? (What concepts or theories did they explain?)
3. What methods did they use? What variables did they analyze to answer the question?
4. What were the significant findings or conclusions from their study?
5. How does their research help your own inquiry in terms of concepts?
For the Annotated Bibliography, use these sources:
– Scholarly journal articles (or chapters from books) by geographers or other social scientists
– Reports from research institutes, government agencies (from any country), non-governmental
organizations (e.g., humanitarian NGOs), or international agencies (e.g., EU, UN, others)
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