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Essay Instructions: 2500 word essay that explores legal and practical definitions of migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons and considers factors which may affect those within these categories.


The student is required to:
1. Identify and analyse one refugee situation in a specified country
2. Explore factors contributing to the situation
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of measures already adopted to address the situation
4. Suggest additional and/or alternative strategies explaining why they may be effective

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Essay Instructions: Proposal: Counseling Immigrants and Refugees - Bring the World to your Backyard

The primary objective of this is to educate about counseling immigrants and refugees in an entertaining and interactive way. We should specifically highlight assisting immigrant and refugee college students. Learning objectives consist of:

1. Define what an immigrant and what a refugee status person is.
2. Identify unique characteristics (i.e. culture, socioeconomic status, etc.) of
immigrants and refugees in the United States.
3. Discuss common issues of adjustment experienced by immigrants and refugees in
the United States.
4. Identify/implement counseling strategies and needs best suited for immigrant and
refugee clients/students.
5. Utilize best practices of counseling strategies from other colleges and universities
when working with immigrant and refugee students.


Counseling Strategies/Techniques -
- interpreters (transference, ingenuous connection, etc.)
- allowing clients to name their experiences in their own time
- Counselors need to understand different family dynamics an involvement


Specific Issues for International Students at Colleges and Universities:
- best practices (offices, programs, events, mentors, etc)
- a practice example of counseling within small groups

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[From our textbook]

Immigrants living in the US make up approx. 12% of the population - And about half of these 33.5 million people have arrived since 1990. Reasons for migration include an escape from poverty, seeking a higher quality of life, and political unrest (in their native/home countries). Approx. ? of those who have immigrated since 1965 come from Latin American countries, and another ? of this population from Asia, leaving the last ? a diverse group from places such as Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Many earn lower wages and have a much higher incidence rate of poverty, esp. those originating from underdeveloped countries.
Immigrants in the US adult population 33% have not completed their high school education (as compared to 12.5% of the total adult population). Furthermore, immigrant students account for 10% of high school students, they account for 27% of high school drop outs - so they tend to quit school in greater numbers than students born in the US. Children of immigrant families have high rates of poverty (35%) and nearly half are uninsured.

Challenges
Historical & Sociopolitical Factors
Immigration Laws pre-1952 were biased
Social Stigmas (perceived by White America)
Prejudice & Discrimination
English as the national language
Immigrants=terrorists post 9/11
Climate of fear - led to decline in use of healthcare and other resources
Cultural & Acculturation Conflicts
adjustment & adaptation to new cultural customs within a different society
mixed reception received by US citizens
less likely to see out assistance due to cultural norms
Gender Issues & Domestic Violence
employment opps greater for women, lead to men?s domestic violence towards their wives to ?regain their authority & power?
women socialized to sacrifice their needs for the needs of their spouse/family
economic dependence & fear of retaliation = fear of reporting abuse
Barriers to Seeking Treatment
Language barrier/communication difficulties
Lack of knowledge of mainstream service delivery
Cultural factors
Lack of resources - poor, no transportation, lack of time off work
Linguistic & Communication Issues
many immigrants require an interpreter
adding a 3rd person to the counseling relationship changes/shifts the dynamic
interpreters not trained in counseling - feelings of emotional distress or uncomfortable at client?s revelations of traumatic distress

Counseling Refugees
Effects of Past Persecution, Torture, or Trauma
Safety Issues & Coping with Loss
Topic

Proposal: Counseling Immigrants Refugees - Bring World Backyard The primary objective educate counseling immigrants refugees entertaining interactive . We specifically highlight assisting immigrant refugee college students.
Number of Pages: 4
Due Date: 19-11-2013 03:00:00 pm
Number of Sources: 4
Amount of this order: $119.80
Document Type: Essay
Fed-Ex Delivery: NO
Academic Level: College Senior (4th year)
Citation Style: APA
General Subject: Not Specified

Essay Instructions: Key text:
Marfleet,P.(2006) Refugees in a Global Era (Basingstoke:Palgrave)

Key websites
www.forcedmigration.org
www.unhcr.ch
www.ercomer.org
www.iom.int
www.refintl.org
www.harpweb.org.uk

Essay Instructions: The title of the dissertation is: The Global Refugee Regime: How the UNHCR and other international actors respond to Humanitarian crisis. First chapter only at this time,more later,
Introduction, Literature Review, Historical Background - 40 pages, use 15 sources, like Helton, Oxford Press, "The Price of Indifference", or Gil Loescher, "Beyond Charity" Oxford Press, or "The State of the World Refugees by UNHCR. Please use at least 5 newspaper articles, or from Refugee Magazine, The second chapter (Later) will be on Theory and specific Policies, and three and four will be case studies and a conclusion. Please include a Hypotheses, statement of the problem. and deliver by e-mail to