Inmigrant and Social Work

Just recently, I went to a commune in Santiago, Quilicura, with my classmates and IOM (International Organization for Migration) to interview the Immigrant People that lived there. Their reality was quite hard. To be faced with this situation, with the Immigrants themselves, to learn their precarious way of living and to know how hard is for them to live without their families in our country, it helped me to realize that something must be done.

Nowadays, our country does not have an effective legislation that shelters and covers the needs of Immigrants, people who see in Chile a place to improve their situation, and that is why there must be a necessity to know and to truly see and learn about the Immigrants situation, in order to give them a proper solution.

I believe that if this issue was more widespread, as well as the Immigrants contribution to our country, this would generate social pressure that would show the necessity to create laws that adress the main needs of immigrants, since none of this is guaranteed. 

Personally, I think that Social Work is a profession that must be in charge of said process, since it has the tools to permit this change. Besides, nowadays, immigrants are a social phenomenom that Social Work  has been very aware of for quite a time, and being that this profession seeks to investigate and find a solution to social problems, immigrations being one of them, Social Work cannot ignore it.