Civic and social integration: A new field of social work practice with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers

International Social Work

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 345-363

  Nash, Mary ^a   Wong, John ^b,c   Trlin, Andrew ^d  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b Asian Services   (United Kingdom)

^c Chinese Social Workers Interest Group   (China)

^d New Settlers Project

Author keywords

Chinese perspective; Education for social workers; New Zealand research; Practice principles for civic social work; Social work and globalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744934522     PISSN: 00208728     EISSN: 14617234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020872806063407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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