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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K.
Emerald Publishing Limited
2017
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| Series: | Critical management studies
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| Collection: | Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references