V sovremennom mire migratsiya naseleniya priobrela global'nye masshtaby. Postepenno povyshaetsya kolichestvo immigrantov, kak dobrovol'nykh, tak i vynuzhdennykh. Sotsial'nyy rabotnik vse chashche stalkivaetsya s klientami, prinadlezhashchimi k drugoy kul'ture. V monografii rassmatrivayutsya osobennosti vzaimodeystviya sotsial'nogo rabotnika i klienta v situatsii mezhkul'turnogo kontakta na primere raboty dvukh moskovskikh organizatsiy po sotsial'noy rabote - na mezhdunarodnom i vnutriobshchestvennom urovne. Avtor, na osnove interv'yu, provedennykh kak s sotsial'nymi rabotnikami, tak i s klientami, analiziruet ikh vzaimodeystvie i delaet vyvody dlya prakticheskoy mezhkul'turnoy raboty. Izdanie adresovano sotsial'nym rabotnikam, sotsiologam, kul'turnym antropologam i etnologam, a takzhe vsem tem, kto zainteresovan v reshenii trudnostey, voznikayushchikh v mezhkul'turnykh otnosheniyakh.