This course focuses on visible minority immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeker families, examining challenges and factors that facilitate or hinder them in the process of settlement and integration into Canadian society. Immigration policies, settlement programs and current human service practices with vulnerable immigrant and refugee families will also be discussed.

Antirequisite(s): The former Family Studies 2225.

Prerequisite(s): Any Family Studies and Human Development 1000-level course or a former Family Studies 1000-level course or permission of the instructor.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.