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Uma Segal

Uma A. Segal is Professor and Director of the Baccalaureate Social Work program and holds a research fellow position in the University’s Center for International Studies. She completed her doctorate in social work (Ph.D.) at Washington University, St. Louis, her Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) at the University of Texas at Arlington, and her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in cultural anthropology from Barnard College of Columbia University in New York.

Dr. Segal’s areas of research interest and publication are immigrant and refugee concerns, Asian American acculturation, and cross-national issues in family violence, with particular focus on India and Japan. She was recently invited to Oxford University to co-facilitate a round-table forum on child protection, diversity, and law and to Kagoshima, Japan, to discuss elder maltreatment. Locally, she has just begun spearheading a task force funded through a HUD grant to the University’s Public Policy Research Center to facilitate integration efforts between New Americans and long-time residents in the Affton/Bayless area.

Uma Segal was appointed editor of the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies in 2004. She has redirected its mission toward an international, interdisciplinary focus in addressing issues related to human migration and moved it to an electronic form of review.

Journal contact information
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
School of Social Work & Center for International Studies
304 Social Sciences and Business Building
Email: ijirs@umsl.edu
Tel; (314) 516-7195, Fax; (314) 516-6757

Special Interests: Immigrants and refugees, Asian Americans, and family violence