SSW advocacy practices for immigrant students: support groups, rights education, safe spaces, and community referrals¶

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Description¶

The article documents concrete advocacy practices SSWs used to counteract racialized contexts: creating support groups for students with detained or deported parents, educating students and families about their rights, carving out safe spaces within schools, providing legal resources, directing families to community services, and forming networks of adult support for unaccompanied minors. These practices aim to thwart the impact of a hostile nested context of reception experienced by immigrant students.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Awareness of immigration policy and racialized contexts of reception, which the article links to SSWs taking action

Constraints¶

• Some SSWs hid such interventions from schools to avoid being told the actions were not permissible, and SSWs in less supportive schools faced isolation, frustration, or burnout

Target Learners¶

• Immigrant students and families in K-12 schools, including undocumented students

Target Learning Goals¶

• Sustaining immigrant students' school belonging, access to services, and social-emotional functioning

Affordances¶

• Racialized Organizations Schools Three Levels

Related Strategies¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Rodriguez, Roth, & Villarreal Sosa. (2022). "Immigration Enforcement Is a Daily Part of Our Students' Lives": School Social Workers' Perceptions of Racialized Nested Contexts of Reception for Immigrant Students. AERA Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584211073170