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

• 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 > Employment. > Canada; Immigrants > Employment. > Canada; Diversity in the workplace > Canada.; Hong Kong (China) > Emigration and immigration.; Canada > Emigration and immigration.
• Online Access: Access Fulltext via EzAccess

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...

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.