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Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees
Pallassana Balgopal (Ed.)
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Description for Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees
Paperback. Balgopal and contributors explore ideas and skills that help human service workers, social workers, helping professionals, and policymakers deepen their understanding of newly arrived immigrants and refugees. Editor(s): Balgopal, Pallassana R. Series: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFD; JFFN; JFS; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231108577
SKU
V9780231108577
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About Pallassana Balgopal (Ed.)
Pallassana R. Balgopal is professor of social work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Reviews for Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees
The United States has always been considered a land of immigrants, but since the massive increase in immigration in the late 1980s, when the number of incoming refugees doubled, this cliche has become very real. This massive influx of people requires a variety of social work services to help immigrants adapt to their new land, and this book is designed ... Read more