Even though social work has long been viewed as an international profession in many respects due to the pioneers' intense interest in and involvement in international interaction, the field is still lagging in terms of migration.This review aims to demonstrate the economic, social, and cultural integration of immigrants and how this issue is influencing social work practice globally and also investigates immigrants' integration in Aotearoa New Zealand, and how social work is dealing with this issue.The literature review found that most social workers are employed by social service organizations and state agencies that are caught in a paradox: on the one hand, they strive to improve individual emancipation, but on the other, they adhere to a larger social system that upholds oppression.This review calls on social workers and academics across the world to mitigate tensions in social workers' roles between post-enlightenment and collectivist social work as state agents as well as the growing conflict between Western and Asian views of this profession.