Framing Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Training in Social Work Classrooms—the Case of Female Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan

Abstract

Immigration from marriage has been on the increase in Taiwan since the 1980s.There are more and more foreign women from Southeast Asian countries that have married Taiwanese men. After foreign spouses arrive in Taiwan, they face difficulties such as spousal abuse and social stigma.We should be aware that social work undergraduates can be culturally insensitive and may harbor unintentional discrimination toward these immigrants. We propose a module of introducing human rights, cultural diversity and female marriage immigrants into a social work curriculum. This framework is to spread social work education to a new area, namely, human rights.

Perspectives towards cultural competence and receptivity to cultural competence training: a qualitative study on healthcare professionals

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Social Workers’ Attitudes on Social Justice in Taiwan

“…Havig (2013) drew similar conclusions from in-depth interviews with 17 social work field instructors whose aims were to empower their students with the principles of social justice. Briefly, social work education assists social workers develop the capacity to ask reflective questions while human rights training focuses on the social workers' attention on their roles of making a positive difference in the life of the disadvantaged (Chen et al, 2013), which Ajzen (1991) meant by the concept of social justice perceived behavioral control.…”

Social workers’ attitudes toward human rights in a sample from Taiwan

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