Social Work and Migration: Immigrant and Refugee Settlement and Integration

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Migration Today......Page 16
Migration Antecedents and Flows......Page 22
Refugees and Immigrants......Page 27
Settlement and Integration as a Policy, Programme and Practice Agenda for Social Work......Page 29
2 Social Work Approaches to Practice with Immigrants and Refugees......Page 36
The Human Rights and Citizenship Rights Approaches to Practice......Page 37
Human Rights......Page 38
Citizenship Rights......Page 40
Ethnic-sensitive and Culturally Competent Approaches......Page 47
Critical Social Work......Page 49
Immigrants’ Relations to Societal Institutions: The State, the Market and Civil Society......Page 54
Relations to the State......Page 57
Relations to the Market......Page 61
Relations to Civil Society......Page 63
Outcomes of Civil Society Dynamics......Page 68
Relations to the Transnational Community......Page 69
4 Frames for Understanding Settlement and Integration Processes......Page 74
Acculturation and Culture......Page 75
Integration......Page 77
Kallen’s (1995) Model of Structural Integration......Page 78
Assimilation......Page 80
Policy Models......Page 82
Multiculturalism......Page 83
Stakeholding Integration......Page 86
Equality......Page 90
Equity......Page 92
Positive Action Modes for Fostering Equality and Equity Practices......Page 93
Barriers to Inclusion......Page 97
Societal-level Phenomena......Page 102
Employment and Integration......Page 104
The Logic of Discrimination......Page 107
6 Practice Modes for Settlement Social Work......Page 112
Macro-level Settlement Practice......Page 113
The Meso Level in Settlement Practice......Page 119
Micro-level Approaches to Settlement Practice......Page 123
Strengths and Ecological Approaches......Page 128
Power and Sources of Power......Page 130
Forms of Capital......Page 131
The Immigrant Family......Page 138
Family Roles and Supports......Page 141
Adaptation and Acculturation in Refugee Groups......Page 149
Coping Skills in Settlement......Page 151
Introducing Second Generation Issues......Page 154
Ethnic Identity, its Formation, Refashioning and Politicization......Page 155
Equal Citizenship......Page 158
Policy Models – Integration Principles and Policies in Different Reception Countries......Page 168
Specific Policy and Programme Areas......Page 172
Needs Discourse......Page 176
Bureaucratic and Institutional Work Environment......Page 179
Issues of Leadership and Power in Institutions......Page 182
Two Settlement Phenomena: Residential Concentrations and a Community Organization Service Provision Model......Page 184
Ethical Principles......Page 190
Building Robust Approaches for Settlement Practice......Page 199
Final Remarks......Page 203
Bibliography......Page 206
Index......Page 232