Integration work with immigrantsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

Students • are familiar with the integration process for immigrants and know how to act in a manner that promotes integration • know how to apply the Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration in grassroot-level social work • are familiar with the integration service systems and actors • know how to carry out integration work in various ways with people who have moved to Finland • know how to act in an integrative way on the level of the individual, family and networks • are familiar with various cultural understandings and understanding of family in customer work • know how to act in challenging situations related to immigration and immigration work and how to identify and prevent harmful traditions and act to prevent them • know how to analyse and develop integration work in customer work and work communities.

Content

• the Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration and the integration service systems and actors • integration work on the level of the individual, family and networks • the significance of language in integration • cultural understandings and understanding of family in customer work • development challenges in immigration work

Qualifications

Moninaisuus ja monikulttuurisuus opinnot 5 op suoritettu tai vastaavat opinnot. Edellyttää monikulttuurisuus- ja moninaisuustyön peruskäsitteiden ja toimintaympäristöjen tuntemusta.