Attitudes towards undocumented Latinos receiving social welfare benefits among Social Work students in the graduate program at California State University, Sacramento

Project (M.S.W., Social Work) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2011.This project was a collaborative assignment in which each chapter was evenly split with each researcher. The purpose of this project was to explore the attitudes of social work students at the California State University, Sacramento, Master of Social Work program, toward undocumented Latino immigrants receiving social welfare benefits in the United States. Little research has been done to date on social work students??? attitudes toward undocumented Latino immigrants. Today this topic is important as our economy finds itself in an economic recession. Within this time, many are to blame, including undocumented Latino immigrants. It is important to explore attitudes of those in the social work profession towards this population. More specifically, an individual social worker???s perception about undocumented Latino immigrants, as it may influence the manner in which services should be provided to people of this population. This exploratory study consisted of a non-random sample of 115 (N=115) social work students attending the spring 2011 semester. There was a 100% participation rate of those students who were asked to participate. \ud \ud The overall results indicated that social work students??? who participated in the study hold positive attitudes toward undocumented Latino immigrants.Social Wor