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African Immigrants Career Development
Welcome! I am Betsy Moreno and the podcast you are hearing is a synopsis and reflection about the article titled School Counselors Supporting African Immigrant Students’ Career Development: A Case Study, written by Jennifer Scaturo Watkinson and Afra Ahmen Hersi. This article can be found in Career Development Quarterly, volume 62, pages 44 through 55.
This case study was about African Immigrants settling in the United States, which are 2 million of the 13% of immigrants in the United States (Watkinson and Hersi, 2014). The case study mainly focused on Eastern African Somali’s who have fled their country due to ongoing war (p. 1). What sets these immigrants apart from South American or Caribbean Immigrants we are more accustomed too is that

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