Uma A. Segal—Panelist
University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Uma A. Segal is professor and director of the BSW program at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis and holds a research fellow position in the University’s Center for International Studies. Segal’s areas of research interest and publication are immigrant and refugee concerns, Asian American acculturation, and cross-national issues in family violence, with particular focus on India and Japan. She currently serves as a resident expert at the Katherine A. Kendall Institute of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and recently completed a cross-national project on immigration with the Economic Policy Institute in Bulgaria on behalf of CSWE. Another research project explored migration issues in Europe and North America and was spearheaded by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Greece. Segal is also the editor of the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.