Civic and social integration

Nash, Mary; Wong, John; Trlin, A. D.

doi:10.1177/0020872806063407

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“…Given the nature of the work involved, integration workers in this field often need to have specialized knowledge and one can ask if the transformations of work practice with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers is developing into a new field of practice. [3] However, we argue that it is reasonable to assume that the transformations have generated new demands on professional expertise as well as questions in need of further research.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Dimensions of professional knowledge

Winman

Westerlind

2019

Soc Work Soc Welf

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This study concern how professional knowledge is discussed, understood and employed by integration workers in an integration activity in Sweden called Civic Orientation. The changing and complex nature of integration work implies that integration workers need specialized knowledge to ensure quality of the activity. Defining what is meant by professional knowledge is especially important and to address these issues, this study focuses on what constitutes professional knowledge with respect to the efforts made to support immigrant integration. Our study reveals that professional knowledge in Civic Orientation encompasses the understanding and responding to the heterogeneity of the groups in daily interactions, developing standardized procedures; and knowledge about how to establishing a cumulative approach to knowledge in the organization. We argue that these motives are embedded in different perspectives on culture and knowledge. Furthermore, these different perspectives are expressed as tensions between values of creativity and standardization as well as between equality and heterogeneity.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Dimensions of professional knowledge

Winman

Westerlind

2019

Soc Work Soc Welf

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“…New knowledge and skills are needed to negotiate new communities and to network with other migrants and organisations that can assist with settlement (Nash, Wong, & Trlin, 2006). All of the mothers talked about language difficulties and the emotional adjustments and struggles they experienced adapting to a new identity for both themselves and their children.…”

Section: Integration and Language-nurturing The Mother Tongue And Fosmentioning

confidence: 99%

African Mothers’ Experiences of Raising ‘Afro-Kiwi Kids’ in Aotearoa / New Zealand

Connor¹,

Ayallo²,

Elliott³

2017

ARAS

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This article presents findings from qualitative research data gathered from a group of ten refugee-background and immigrant African mothers living in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The research study-FromMothers living in Auckland-focused on the mothers' narratives and their perceptions of their experiences of mothering within the cultural and social contexts of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and how they set about raising their 'Afro-Kiwi kids' (a term used by several of the women to describe their children's dual identity) in their adopted country. Findings are specific to the cohort's experiences and the Auckland community in which they have made new homes for themselves and their families. The role and place of African women migrants in resettlement and research into their mothering is limited, and this research was cognisant of addressing this gap in the literature. The study acknowledged the strong role women have within their families as guardians of culture and language, and an underlying rationale was to increase understanding of the ways mothers contribute to new migrant and refugee-background communities and to uncover some of the ARAS Vol.38 No.2 December 2017 88 challenges they face. Identifying central themes from the narratives was a significant aspect of this research. Identifying and reporting on the themes provided an inherently flexible approach and enabled the researchers to work collaboratively with the women to make sense of and interpret the data. Themes identified included: integration, language, connections with He aroha whaerere, he potiki piri poho A mother's love is the greatest treasure 1

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“…Social workers are frequently facing global social problems such as street children, homelessness, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, and so on. Authors have argued that the involvement of social workers is increasingly needed to service immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers across the world (Nash, Wong, & Trlin, 2006;Potocky, 2008;Potocky-Tripodi, 2002).…”

Section: Internationalization Of the Social Work Professionmentioning

confidence: 99%