Social work with immigrants and refugees
Subtitle: legal issues, clinical skills, and advocacy
By: Fernando Chang-Muy, Elaine P. Congress, editors.
Contributors: Chang-Muy, Fernando.; Congress, Elaine Piller.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780826133359
Subjects: Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions; Social work with immigrants -- United States; Social service -- United States; Crime -- United States; Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions; Children of immigrants -- Education -- Law and legislation -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legal classification of immigrants / Fernando Chang-Muy; title: Culturally competent social work practice with immigrant populations / Carmen Ortiz Hendricks; title: Immigration pattern in the US; title: Theory and social work practice with immigrant populations / Betty Garcia; title: Social work and physical health issues of immigrants / Sarah Blair Smith; title: Mental health issues in new immigrant communities / Denise Michultka; title: Immigrants and employment / Marielena Hincapi; title: Immigrant children and education / Len Rieser; title: Women / Sujata Warrier and Jennifer Rose; title: Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender immigrants / Rachel B. Tiven and Victoria Neilson; title: Older adult immigrants in the United States : issues and services / Patricia Brownell and Robin Creswick Fenley; title: Overview of immigrant eligibility for federal programs / Tanya Broder; title: Social workers and immigrant advocacy / Jasmeet Kaur Sidhu.