Download or read book Social Work and Integration in Immigrant Communities written by Ms Kathleen Valtonen and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a marked rise in global migration with many former countries of emigration becoming destinations of immigration. As such, social workers are increasingly called upon to work in immigrant communities, while in the field of research, theories, conceptual frames, perspectives and discourse have materialized and evolved to make sense of contemporary events. Valtonen familiarizes the reader with the variation in national policies, institutional arrangements and service responses, and provides salient information to help with visioning in the profession, defining appropriate and concerted responses, and building robust standing in the field as well as promoting the linking of disciplinary and multidisciplinary research with practice.