“…(Re)gaining lost resources and acquiring new skills relevant to the host society has been found crucial in securing employment (Hobfoll, 2001;Ryan et al, 2008). As shown in previous studies, newcomers' labor market positions can be explained through a wide range of such resources (for an overview, see Heath and Cheung, 2007;Ott, 2013), including pre-and post-migration cultural capital (Waxman, 2001;Chiswick and Miller, 2009;Hartog and Zorlu, 2009;Kanas and van Tubergen, 2009;de Vroome and van Tubergen, 2010;Correa-Velez et al, 2013;Cheng et al, 2019), social capital (Waxman, 2001;de Vroome and van Tubergen, 2010;Kanas et al, 2011;Correa-Velez et al, 2013;Cheung and Phillimore, 2014) and personal capital (Phillimore, 2011;Walther et al, 2019).…”