Framing Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Training in Social Work Classrooms—the Case of Female Marriage Immigrants in Taiwan

Abstract

Immigration from marriage has been on the increase in Taiwan since the 1980s.There are more and more foreign women from Southeast Asian countries that have married Taiwanese men. After foreign spouses arrive in Taiwan, they face difficulties such as spousal abuse and social stigma.

We should be aware that social work undergraduates can be culturally insensitive and may harbor unintentional discrimination toward these immigrants. We propose a module of introducing human rights, cultural diversity and female marriage immigrants into a social work curriculum. This framework is to spread social work education to a new area, namely, human rights.

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female marriage immigrants social work education human rights Taiwan

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