Social Work and Migration Immigrant and Refugee Settlement and Integration [Hardcover]

Social work increasingly finds itself at the frontline of issues pertaining to immigrant and refugee settlement and integration. In this timely book, Kathleen Valtonen provides the first book-length study on the challenges these issues create for the profession. Drawing on a wide range of research in migration which is not widely available to social workers or included in social work literature, she offers readers an opportunity to explore the capacity of the profession to take a primary role in the course and outcome of settlement. The book fills a gap in the social work literature by providing scholars, practitioners and students with a critical knowledge base that will strengthen their ability to engage with issues of immigration and integration and to open up options for effective practice with growing numbers of immigrant and refugee clients.Contents: Preface; Perspectives on Migration: 'here and now' implications for social work; Social work approaches to practice with immigrants and refugees; Immigrants and refugees in society: the field of action, relations, roles and status; Frames for understanding settlement and integration processes; The politics of inclusion and exclusion; Practice modes for settlement social work; Practice with family systems; The second generation; Developing and implementing social policy and social/settlement services; Settlement practice and ethical principles; Bobliography; Index.Kathleen Valtonen is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago. She has published widely within social work and migration in journals such as the Journal of Refugee Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Social Work, European Journal of Social Work, Asia Pacific Migration Journal and the British Journal of Social Work.