Education Systes
Many immigrant students are placed in this type of class to learn English before joining mainstream courses.
What is ESL (English as a Second Language)?
Language barriers often require the use of these trained individuals in medical settings.
What are interpreters or translators?
Many immigrants fear interactions with this group due to past experiences in their home countries.
Who are law enforcement officers or police?
The fear or hatred of foreigners or immigrants is known as this.
What is xenophobia?
Immigrants may seek belonging through these community-based spiritual spaces.
What are ethnic churches, mosques, temples, or community centers?
Immigrant children may face this academic challenge due to interrupted schooling in their home country.
What is educational disruption or learning gaps?
Fear of deportation often prevents undocumented immigrants from seeking this.
What is healthcare or medical care?
This federal agency oversees immigration enforcement and deportation proceedings.
What is ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)?
After 9/11, hate crimes and discrimination increased against this religious group.
Who are Muslims or people perceived to be Muslim?
Spiritual beliefs about illness or misfortune can shape this aspect of health care.
What is help-seeking behavior or treatment adherence?
Teachers who avoid incorporating cultural examples from students’ backgrounds demonstrate a lack of this key concept.
What is cultural responsiveness or cultural competence?
Many immigrants rely on this informal network for health information and guidance.
What are community networks or faith-based networks?
Immigrants facing deportation are not automatically granted this, unlike criminal defendants.
What is a public defender or right to legal counsel?
This term refers to policies or rhetoric that favor native-born citizens over immigrants.
What is nativism?
The ability of social workers to understand and integrate diverse spiritual perspectives reflects this professional competency.
What is cultural humility or spiritual competence?
Undocumented students are often ineligible for this type of state financial support.
What is in-state tuition or federal financial aid?
This federal act makes it illegal for hospitals to deny emergency care regardless of immigration status.
What is EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act)?
Social workers may assist immigrants applying for this protection from persecution in their home country.
What is asylum or refugee status?
Microaggressions like “You speak such good English!” reflect assumptions about this.
What is who belongs or the “perpetual foreigner” stereotype?
In many immigrant families, spirituality and religion serve this key psychosocial function.
What is coping or resilience?
This 1982 Supreme Court case ruled that states cannot deny free public education to undocumented children.
What is Plyler v. Doe?
Cultural beliefs about health, such as the use of traditional remedies, reflect this important social work concept.
What is cultural humility or culturally grounded practice?
Children separated from parents at the border were detained under this controversial policy in 2018.
What is the “zero-tolerance” policy?
Social workers combat xenophobia by applying this NASW ethical principle.
What is social justice or respect for the dignity and worth of the person?
Some immigrants experience religious marginalization when their beliefs are misunderstood by dominant Western frameworks. This reflects what social concept?
What is ethnocentrism or cultural bias?