Making critical sense of immigrant experience : a case study of Hong Kong Chinese in Canada

This book showcases a critical sensemaking (CSM) study of how professional immigrants from Hong Kong to Canada make sense of their workplace experiences, and what this can tell us about why a substantial number leave in their first year in Canada. An analysis of the interviews demonstrates that immi...

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Other Authors: Hilde, Rosalie K. S., (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
Series: Critical management studies (Series).
Subjects:
Chinese > Canada > Employment.
Immigrants > Canada > Employment.
Diversity in the workplace > Canada.
Hong Kong (China) > Emigration and immigration.
Canada > Emigration and immigration.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781787436626
9781787436749
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 160 pages).

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500 |a Includes index. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Prelims -- Introduction and outline -- Deconstructing immigrant identity work -- Methodological approach -- Research design -- Capturing the discursive elements of the formative context retrospectively -- Searching for plausible cues and institutional rules: the politics of normality -- Agency and identity labels: the picro-processes of resistance -- Unpacking workplace inequality -- Epilogue -- References -- Unstructured interview questions -- Summary of informants -- About the volume editor -- Index. 
520 |a This book showcases a critical sensemaking (CSM) study of how professional immigrants from Hong Kong to Canada make sense of their workplace experiences, and what this can tell us about why a substantial number leave in their first year in Canada. An analysis of the interviews demonstrates that immigrants' identities are grounded by contextual sensemaking elements. Data show that informants have accepted unchallenged assumptions: (1) that the government is providing help for them to "get in" the workplace; and (2) that the ethnic service organizations are offering positive guidance to their workplace opportunities. At the organizational level, a master discourse emphasizing integration has mediated immigrants' struggles. Within these frustrations, many have internalized a hidden discourse of inadequate or deficient selves and adopted a sacrificial position to maintain a positive sense of identity. The study concludes that a critical sensemaking approach allows greater insights into immigration processes than realist surveys, which tend to impose a pre-packaged sense of the immigrant experience. Through critical sensemaking, readers are encouraged to rethink the current role of ethnic service organizations in the immigration system. 
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