Professional Course for Service Among Immigrants: Prepared for the Use of Colleges and Universities, Schools of Civics and Philanthropy, to Fit Men ... Service Among Immigrants (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Committee For Immigrants In America

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0365830224 ISBN 13: 9780365830221

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Professional Course for Service Among Immigrants<br/><br/>The institutions of learning have not measured up to their responsibility in finding and training leaders for this patriotic service. America now needs these leaders and calls upon schools, colleges and universities of the land to train them. The day of untrained workers in positions requiring social and civic efficiency is over. It has become constantly more evident that social work without preliminary training and field work should no more be undertaken than medical practice without clinical experience. To-day, humanitarian work is regarded as a skilled professional service requiring practical and technical training for efficiency. The number of people available for such work has been wholly inadequate to the growing demand for workers with practical experience and the demand both in its present proportions, and in the easily perceivable future of greater proportions, includes several phases of work for and with immigrants. Each of these phases presents an opportunity for the trained worker to express his personality, and for real growth of interests and of vision, as well as for practical service to humanity; and in the majority of cases with the additional attraction of a salary comparable to that in other fields. Opportunities for work are so varied in nature that the same preparation for service among immigrants may prepare students of widely different tastes and temperaments for positions suited to the peculiar disposition of each. Among the important positions at present open to, and actually de manding, trained workers are the following: (a) Teachers in both day and night schools in immigrant communities, (b) Investigators for Immigration Commissions and Bureaus, (c) Inspectors for the Federal Immigration Service, (d) Interpreters in the courts, (e) Naturalization Clerks, (f) Women as visiting nurses and educators, (g) Camp and health inspectors, (h) Public employment officials in charge of immigrant labor, (i) Visitors, directors, supervisors and promoters for the various immigration, social and religious institutions which are rapidly increasing in number and scope throughout the country.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0365830224
• ISBN 13: 9780365830221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32