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Immigrants and Refugees in a Changing Nation

其他書名	Research and Training : Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., May 13-14, 1982
出版	Catholic University of America, Department of Anthropology, 1983
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=j9K6AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This report examines some new approaches to research and training in refugee and immigration programmes in the United States. Its main objective is to provide information in order to contribute towards a better understanding of the social and cultural backgrounds of refugees and immigrants. The report contains studies by NGO representatives, university academics, immigrants and refugees. It is divided into four parts. Part I includes background information on recent refugee and immigration movements in the United States and compares them with earlier movements. In Part II, entitled 'Innovative Research and Action', self-help networks among Kampuchean and Caribbean refugees are studied as well as support systems set up for mental health problems among Soviet Jewish refugees. Part III contains descriptions of Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic women refugees' work experiences and, in Part IV, the implications of the findings in Parts II and III related to training and research aspects of refugee programmes are set out. It was found that self-help groups were an important support for refugees, that programmes for refugee women had not given priority to supporting the women's economic activities, and that problems which can have an impact on training programmes and services among heterogeneous communities (such as the African and Hispanic) vary from those of homogeneous ones. At the same time, there were striking similarities in refugee women's experiences, despite their differing origins, and refugee and immigrant women found themselves in double jeopardy because of the values governing sex roles and power allocation in US society. Some of the reports recommendations are that: 1) US refugee policy should reflect a reconciliation between domestic concerns and international political pressures; 2) researchers should document changing trends as new generations of Afro-Hispanic migrants settle in the United States; 3) training programmes should be organized to include on-the-job training or evening programmes to allow refugees to carry on a normal daily life; 4) there should be further research concerning details of adaptation within families and kin of Indo-Chinese refugees; 5) cultural values, social patterns and occupational and linguistic skills of refugees should not be overlooked in the pursuit of self-sufficiency; and 6) a knowledge of a refugee or migrant's history is useful information from which to project and predict patterns of adaptation.