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New. 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…
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Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees Hardcover - 2000
by Pallassana Balgopal (Editor)
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The purpose of this volume is to examine and develop the role of social workers serving new immigrants and refugees in the United States.
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- Title Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees
- Author Pallassana Balgopal (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date August 15, 2000
- ISBN 9780231108560 / 0231108567
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.2 x 0.76 in (23.50 x 15.75 x 1.93 cm)
- Reading level 1360
- Library of Congress subjects Immigrants - United States, Emigration and immigration law - United
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00020725
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.870
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- Choice, 05/01/2001, Page 1662
- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2001, Page 116
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