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Leaving Home, Finding Home: Narrative Practice with Immigrant Populations

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This chapter presents a narrative perspective on the nature of immigration and the implications of this for clinical social work practice with immigrant populations. The phases of the immigration experience are explored along with the meaning of these for the evolving narrative of immigrant individuals and communities, including the nature of identity loss and renegotiation. Competing social, cultural, and political narratives of immigration are examined. Clinical case illustrations are provided.

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McTighe, J.P. (2018). Leaving Home, Finding Home: Narrative Practice with Immigrant Populations. In: Narrative Theory in Clinical Social Work Practice. Essential Clinical Social Work Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70787-7_6

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