Professional Identities in Transit: Factors Shaping Immigrant Labour Market Success

Remennick, Larissa

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2435.2011.00733.x

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“…International labour migration also depends on factors like the information technology (IT) communication, high-tech, better transportation, and media (Reitz, 2001;Favell, 2008;Teitelbaum, 2008;Ciarniene & Kumpikaite, 2011;Remennick, 2013). Doomernik (2013) considers them as push and pull factors.…”

Section: Factors Facilitating Migration Diasporasmentioning

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A Review on the Trends and Ethical Issues of Labour Migration from Asia and the Pacific

Wangchuk¹,

Dhammasaccakarn²,

Jamtsho³

et al. 2014

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Labour migration is a phenomenon, which is not motionless; rather, it amplifies rapidly particularly from superfluous labourer countries to the labourer scarce countries. In the midst of trade liberalization and globalization reshaping the world's economy in toto, the labour migration has multiplied additionally. Labour migration has benefited both the sender and recipient countries. Most significantly, the remittances sent by migrants from overseas have contributed to the economic development of their countries of origin and the living standards of their families have improved progressively. Conversely, the increase in labour migration has founded numerous social problems that have threatened the safety of the migrants and their families back at home. Consequently, an instantaneous need has arisen for both sender and recipient countries to act collaboratively in formulating policies regarding the migrants' intrinsic needs and therefore ensuring the sustainability of labour migration in the future.

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Section: Factors Facilitating Migration Diasporasmentioning

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A Review on the Trends and Ethical Issues of Labour Migration from Asia and the Pacific

Wangchuk¹,

Dhammasaccakarn²,

Jamtsho³

et al. 2014

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“…Although participants can familiarise themselves with relevant equipment, access to potential patients was severely restricted and some procedures could not be practised. Additionally both medicine and dentistry have been characterised as professions that require culturally-specific communication styles (Remennick, 2013, p. 156 John's observation supports Remennick's (2013) assertion that clinical professions such as dentistry and medicine are embedded within the cultural and social codes of the new professional context, and that overseas-qualified professionals need to learn culturally-relevant communication skills relevant to the Australian clinical workplace. Such skills though are hard to acquire due to restricted access to the professional environment.…”

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“…Yet while labour market dynamics may help to explain the difficulty teachers experienced in finding work, it may also relate to the cultural dependency of the teaching profession, and the difficulty with which it can be transferred to a new cultural setting (Remennick, 2013). Some participants expressed reservations about entering an unknown professional environment, as Aanya described in relation to her search for a teaching position:…”

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“…These professionals need to gain recognition of their qualifications and an understanding of the new professional culture to resume professional practice. Finally, culturally-neutral professions such as engineering were the most easily transferred given the verifiable nature of the skills involved (Remennick, 2013). In Israel Remennick (2013) found that while occupational success was affected by factors such as language skills, access to networks and family support, and age and gender, migrants whose professions were more culturally-dependent experienced additional challenges.…”

Section: Professional Identity Career Commitment and The Cultural Dementioning

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“…In her research into the determinants of immigrant labour market success among Russian immigrants in Israel, Remennick (2013) argued that a factor of primary importance in determining skill utilisation was the "the very nature of the profession in terms of cultural dependency: the extent to which a professional practice is embedded in the language, mentality and cultural codes of a specific society" (p. 156). She proposed a scale of professional cultural dependency within which professions such as law and teaching were categorised as culture-dependent and therefore hard to transfer to a new cultural setting.…”

Section: Professional Identity Career Commitment and The Cultural Dementioning

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Overseas-qualified professionals: the search for professional re-entry and its perceived impact on settlement

Scull¹

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Gaining recognition of overseas qualifications represents a major barrier for skilled migrants in Australia and is a primary cause of underemployment. While recent immigration policy initiatives have had some positive impacts on labour market outcomes among skilled migrants, the challenges posed by qualifications recognition remain and skill under-utilisation is a significant issue, particularly for migrants from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. The recent Australian literature on skilled migrants focuses predominantly on broader labour market trends and there is little qualitative research that has explored the labour market experiences of these migrants, or the perceived impact of their experiences on settlement.This exploratory study aims to address this gap by focusing on the subjective experiences of overseas-qualified professionals seeking professional re-entry in Australia. Specifically the research focuses on their search for qualifications recognition and skill utilisation, and the perceived impact of this search on settlement. Adopting a qualitative methodology, the study targeted migrants with qualifications and work experience in legally-regulated professions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 CALD overseas-qualified professionals in southeast Queensland. These interviews elicited an in-depth account of their search for professional re-entry, together with their perceptions of how these experiences had affected their settlement. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data, which was guided by a conceptual framework that draws together aspects of recognition theory, cultural and social capital.The findings suggest that regardless of outcome, the majority of participants perceived that their search for professional re-entry had been to some extent negative. The search for registration was often characterised by the need for participants to make significant investments of time, money and effort. Despite such investments, many participants perceived that the design and implementation of the qualifications recognition process restricted their ability to demonstrate their linguistic and professional competence. Over half the participants had managed to gain registration, an outcome that represented formal recognition of their professional status. Registration itself, however, did not ensure skill utilisation, and professional re-entry was dependent upon gaining informal recognition in the labour market. In response to challenges encountered in the search for work, participants described a range of strategies they used to develop their employability. Despite these efforts, only six of the 20 participants had achieved professional re-entry at the time of interview.iii Participants' perceptions of how their search for professional re-entry had affected their settlement were inextricably linked with their understandings of settlement. Participants understood settlement as a sense of security and belonging, which could be facilitated by meaningful work. Those ...

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Immigration and Gender

Remennick

2016

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies

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International migration is one of the key processes shaping contemporary societies and affecting the lives of millions of people in sending and receiving countries. Driven by the needs of the global economy, opportunity gaps between Global North and South, ethnic conflicts, wars, and displacement, millions of men and women leave their homelands and resettle in countries promising greater personal and economic security and better futures for their children. Men and women experience migration differently due to their unequal statuses and personal resources; migration, in turn, affects the roles men and women have in every society. Destination countries are typically developed market economies with high living standards that allow immigration to meet their labor needs and comply with the moral norms of humanitarian aid and family unification. While settler societies of the New World (United States, Canada, Australia, and others) have always used immigration as their main nation‐building resource, European countries became migration hubs more recently and rather unwillingly, still struggling to realign their national identity with new multicultural reality. This entry traces the evolving field of study embracing migration and gender, documenting its expanding agenda and geographic scope, and offers two case studies that typify gender‐based problems in migrant incorporation.

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Professional Identities in Transit: Factors Shaping Immigrant Labour Market Success

Cited by 44 publications

References 35 publications

A Review on the Trends and Ethical Issues of Labour Migration from Asia and the Pacific

A Review on the Trends and Ethical Issues of Labour Migration from Asia and the Pacific

Overseas-qualified professionals: the search for professional re-entry and its perceived impact on settlement

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