Social work practice with immigrants and refugees / Pallassana Balgopal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balgopal, Pallassana, editor.

Series:

Foundations of social work knowledge.

Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social work with immigrants--United States.

Social work with immigrants.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Refugees--United States.

Refugees.

Emigration and immigration law--United States.

Emigration and immigration law.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The United States has always been a land of immigrants and a destination for refugees. With the increase in immigration in the late 1980s-when the number of refugees entering the United States nearly doubled as well-the number of clients needing social work services rose dramatically. Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees takes an ecological systems perspective on working with these two distinct groups, paying special attention to the relationship between individuals and their social environment. Focusing on the major immigrant groups who have come to the United States since the 1965 Immigration Act, the book contains chapters on immigrants and refugees from Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. Pallassana R. Balgopal and contributors explore ideas, concepts, and skills that will help human service workers, social workers, helping professionals, and policymakers deepen their understanding of cultural attitudes toward newly arrived immigrants and refugees, thus strengthening their ability to better serve an ethnically diverse clientele.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees: An Overview / Balgopal, Pallassana R.

2. Social Work Practice with Asian Immigrants / Nimmagadda, Jayashree / Balgopal, Pallassana R.

3. Social Work Practice with Latino American Immigrants / Longres, John F. / Patterson, Davis G.

4. Social Work Practice with African-Descent Immigrants / Francis, E. Aracelis

5. Social Work Practice with European Immigrants / Karger, Howard Jacob / Levine, Joanne

6. Refugees in the 1990s: A U.S. Perspective / Mayadas, Nazneen S. / Segal, Uma A.

Conclusion / Balgopal, Pallassana R.

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231108577

0231108575

9780231504188

0231504187

OCLC:

51311492