Working with Immigrants and Refugees examines the issues and processes that help, hinder, or obstruct the settlement experiences of newcomers to Canada. This contributed volume explores major challenges commonly faced by immigrants and refugees, especially those newcomers whose race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, or position as an asylum seeker makes them particularly vulnerable. The text offers critical analysis of challenges and issues alongside practical suggestions and insights to ensure students are fully prepared to work with immigrants and refugees.

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Miu Chung Yan is a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. As an applied qualitative researcher, he has been a principal investigator and co-investigator of over a dozen studies on the settlement needs and challenges of immigrants and refugees and on youth from immigrant families. Miu has also been studying the roles and functions of place-based community organizations as a social integration and community building mechanism. Findings of his studies have been extensively published in both Canadian and international scholarly journals.

Uzo Anucha is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at York University. Her community-engaged scholarship, teaching, and professional activities are centred on promoting equity and access for diverse communities within local, national, and international contexts. Her current research is focused on critical youth work. Uzo is the provincial academic director for the Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange - a provincial project with regional hubs in five schools of social work across Ontario, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services (www.youthrex.com). She has also served on a variety of community-based professional boards, including the Board of Accreditation of the Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work.

"This [text] truly fills the gap that exists in Canadian literature around immigrants/refugee experiences. . . . The features that set it apart from other texts is its use of rich descriptive case examples, its explicit connections of theory to practice and that [it] is written from a Canadian perspective/Canadian focus." --Everton Lewis, Humber College

"This [text] represents a unique approach to working with immigrants and refugees. . . . The focus on pressing social issues facing immigrants and refugees, the focus on the issues facing particularly vulnerable groups within the immigrant and refugee communities, the avoidance of cultural essentialism, and perhaps most importantly, the focus on Canada make this an important contribution to the effort to address a huge deficiency in the Canadian social work literature. . . . There is nothing like this text in the Canadian context which focuses squarely on social work practice with immigrants and refugees." --Dave Sangha, University of Northern British Columbia