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Teresa MUNBY, "Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Law for Social Workers", Liverpool Law Review XIX/2 (1997), 193-202: This paper considers the need to teach intending social workers about immigration, nationality and asylum legislation. It explores the benefits of doing so and then considers how it might be taught. The need to teach this area of law is premised on three arguments.

Firstly, that social workers understanding of race, discrimination and anti-discriminatory practice will benefit from having an historical overview of the developments in immigration and nationality law in the UK.

Secondly, that attempts by government to exclude asylum seekers from social security benefits and subsequent court decisions have brought local authority social services departments clearly into the frame for having financial responsibility for this client group.

Thirdly, only with an understanding and knowledge of this legislation can social workers effectively work with and assist those clients for whom their immigration/nationality/asylum status maybe relevant when helping in related social welfare problems (of say benefits, housing, domestic violence and so on) through the social workers' increased understanding of the significance of immigration status upon such problems.

The article then explores how this area of law can be taught and suggests three main areas of content covering: legislation, internal immigration control and detention.
e-mail: tmunby@ruskin.ac.uk

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