Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees

Catalog description

This course explores the scope and complexity of global/international migration and its impacts on national policy and social service structures and organizational response. It provides a framework to understand transmigration and acculturation, to analyze aspects of current immigration law, and to examine the role of various service systems to address the needs of immigrant and refugee individuals and families integrating into local communities. Service-learning in an agency that serves the local immigrant community is required.