Immigration and Child Welfare

ISS-USA and the Arthur C. Helton Institute for the Study of International Social Service recently announced plans for their annual international social work conference, Fractured Lives: The Causes and Consequences of Children Separated from Their Families Across International Borders.

Scheduled for November 4-5 in Baltimore, the event will be co-sponsored and hosted once again by the University of Maryland School of Social Work.

This national conference series, now in its third year, will examine the ways in which families become fractured including international adoption, disrupted adoptions, immigration enforcement, and parental abduction among others. Second, the conference will examine the consequences to children of these separations and provide a forum for discussing best practices in both law and social work to deal with these familial upheavals. Click here for more information.

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