The Study Of Social Work Intervention For The Migrant Children Under The Perspective Of Social-ecological Systems

Large-scale population mobility and migration is the most significant demographic phenomena in the process of industrialization and urbanization in China. The data show that the number of floating population in China in2010amounted to221million people, accounting for16.5%of the total population, and children under the age of14accounted for20.8percent of the mobile population overall. It is perceived that child has become an important part of the floating population. The majority of migrant workers in the city facing a triple disadvantaged status of the farmers, workers, immigrants, migrant children also faced with a difficult situation.Social work is a subject services of vulnerable groups, large-scale migrant children is one of the focus groups. Previous studies of migrant children from the perspective of social work are too narrow to be extended,or the interpretation is too general to be Implemented. This study sought to get a comprehensive understanding of the ecosystem conditions of migrant children on the basis of previous studies, self-observation and practice,and to summarize four major problems they face:education (including family education, school education, community education, education fair),health care issues, mental health problems and social integration.Then to explore the path of social work involved in the migrant children’s services.This study included four parts:Part Ⅰ:literature review. By reading the relevant literature,the problems of migrant children are summed up in four areas including education, mental health, health care and social integration, which are the fields social work need to be resolved.Part Ⅱ:Analysis of the necessity of social work services migrant children. First,the concept of child welfare,children’s rights and needs will be introduced to explain the fact that migrant children are faced with the lack of welfare, the right to be damaged and the needs are not met.And then elaborate the advantages of social work intervention from three aspects including the values and professional ethics, theoretical basis and the professional practices.Part Ⅲ:The fitness of social-ecological systems theory and the social work profession. First introduced the theory of social-ecological systems, including the three levels of social-ecological systems and their interactions, the basic assumptions of the ecosystem approach, followed by introduction of social work under the perspective of social-ecological systems,including the definition of the main issues of the case, ecosystem assessment, intervention principles and intervention methods.All of these are the theoretical basis of this study.Part Ⅳ:social work intervention for the migrant children under the perspective of social-ecological systems. First, there is an analysis of the migrant children’s social-ecological systems, including microsystems, Mesosystem, Exosystem and Macrosystem.Finally, the path of social work intervention for migrant children will be proposed under the perspective of social-ecological systems.