Uma A. Segal
Professor
Ph.D., LCSW, Washington University
207 Bellerive Hall
314- 516-6379
umasegal@umsl.edu
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Uma A. Segal is Professor and Director of the Baccalaureate Social Work program. 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 currently serves as resident scholar on immigration for the Advisory Board of the Katherine A. Kendall Institute (KAKI) of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). In 2010, she represented KAKI on two panel presentations on migration—at the Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development in Hong Kong and at the Annual Program Meeting of CSWE in Portland, Oregon. A current project is a four volume co-edited compendium entitled Refugees Worldwide.
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 exploring human migration.
Journal contact information:
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1556-2948.asp
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
Recent Publications:
Segal, U., Mayadas, N. & Elliott, D. [eds. (2010)] Immigration worldwide. 30 Chapters. New York, NY: Oxford University Press (30 chapters—Chapters 1, 2, and 30 by co-editors, Chapter 3 by U.Segal).
(Abstract: The ease of transportation, the globalization of the world market, the opening of borders and international immigration policies, the growing refugee movements, and the size of undocumented immigrant populations suggest that immigration worldwide is phenomenon to which the social sciences across the globe must give increased attention. This book explores current patterns and policies of immigration in 25 countries as well as the European and African Unions, with analysis of implications for the countries, the immigrant populations, and global perspectives.
Segal, U., (In press, 2010). Working with immigrants and refugees. In Link, R. & Healy, L. (eds.) Handbook of international social work, Oxford University Press. (pp. 18).
(Abstract: Migration worldwide continues to increase, as people move in, through, and out of countries and regions. Increasing openings of borders, as in the European Union, greater physical border controls, as in the southern United States, and ongoing perceptions of border fluidity, as in the African Union, present unprecedented opportunities and challenges to, among others, policy makers, service providers, and businesses and the migrants themselves. This chapter discusses general issues facing newcomers and host nations, suggests implications for social work practice, and provides some resources for further information.)
Segal, U., (In Press, 2010). The Indian American‑ Family In Mindel, C., Habenstein, R., & Wright, R. (eds). Ethnic families in America, 5th edition. Prentice Hall, Inc., 331-360
(Abstract: An overview of Indian migration and adaptation in the United States, this chapter explores the changing profile of immigrants from India and the experience of the immigrant and second generations.
Segal, U., (2009). Nazneen S. Mayadas: An advocate for refugees. In Lieberman, A. Women who have shaped the world. Lyceum Press, pp. 20.
Segal, U., (2009). United States: A land of opportunities? Special issue, dCIDOB Journal, Center for International Relations and Development Studies Foundation, 107, 38 - 43, translated into Catalan.
(Abstract: This paper provides a broad-brush picture of immigration in the United States in the first decade of the 21st Century, including immigration and immigrant policies, an immigrant profile, and the role of human and social capital in immigrant integration.)
Courses:
- SW 2230 - Asians in Migration
- SW 5300 - Community Practice and Social Change
- SW 5350 - Social Work and Human Service Organizations
- SW 5500 - Foundations of Human Behavior in the Social Environment