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Gendered Immigration: Implications and Impact on Social Work Education

Author(s) -

DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga,

Lihua Huang

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

advances in social work

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2331-4125

pISSN - 1527-8565

DOI - 10.18060/1877

Subject(s) - immigration , perspective (graphical) , social work , sociology , work (physics) , gender studies , service (business) , political science , law , economy , economics , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering

Gendered immigration is a frame of reference for contextualizing the need for gender-specific immigrant services. Like other immigration societies, the United States disproportionately pays less attention to immigrant women. This article is a conceptual examination of the critical challenges faced by immigrant women from a global perspective. Special attention is given to the importance of social work education regarding service delivery structures for an increasing number of immigrant women in the United States.

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