Immigrant and Refugee Concerns in Human Services

Abstract

This issue marks the birth of a new scholarly publication devoted to the exploration of immigrant and refugee concerns. The goal of the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Services is to provide articles on global immigration issues including policy analysis, individual and societal experiences, accultural behavior, cross-cultural dialogues on theory, research and practice. The Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Serviceswill also feature a column on the Internet, discussing Internet content and practice from an international perspective. Book reviews, case studies, research, program development and current events will be included. The wars, revolutions, famines, terrorism, and economic stagnations of the last decade have brought manymillions of immigrants, both legal and illegal, into the United States, as well as Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In the United States alone, according to the 1990 Census, immigration accounted for more than one quarter of the population growth from 1980 to 1989. Demographers have projected that almost two-thirds of the population in the United States over the next fifty years will be the result of post-1990 immigrants and their children.