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ERIC Number: EJ1358756
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1043-7797
EISSN: EISSN-2163-5811
Social Workers' Perceptions of Structural Inequality and Immigrant Threat: Results from a National Survey
Park, Yoosun; Torres, Maria; Bhuyan, Rupaleem; Ao, Jixia; Graves, Lucy; Rundle, Andrew
Journal of Social Work Education, v58 n3 p449-471 2022
As part of a national survey on social workers' attitudes toward immigrants and immigration (N=4,499), we collected information on respondents' perceptions of immigrants as threats and respondents' views on structural inequality as it pertains to immigrants' opportunities for success. Contrary to the Council on Social Work Education's Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards stating the need for social workers to understand the existence and functioning of structural forces of inequality, nearly a third of our respondents denied that immigrants are disadvantaged compared to U.S.-born citizens, and more than a third denied that disadvantage is related to race, ethnicity, or national origin. Those who denied disadvantage were more likely than those who did not to see immigrants as threats. We provide interpretations for these findings and offer some recommendations for social work research and education geared toward deepening practitioners' knowledge of the structural barriers faced by immigrants.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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