Sensemaking in expatriation?A theoretical basis

Glanz, Lyn; Williams, Roger; Hoeksema, Ludwig

doi:10.1002/1520-6874(200101/02)43:1<101::aid-tie7>3.0.co;2-t

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“…The reliance on technology for communication limited participants' access to social capital resources to build social networks in support of their overall integration. We contribute to this literature by highlighting that while technology can contribute to the creation of social networks, it does not replace face-to-face interactions critical for accessing local interpretation schemas (Glanz et al, 2001;Nardon et al, 2015), including information about work opportunities, as well as interpretation and evaluation of one's skills and fit to the labour market.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Social capital includes the actual and potential resources (Bourdieu, 1986) required to develop social networks, the underlying structure of relations "that hold the capacity for providing social capital" (Clear et al, 2005, p. 80). Research has established the critical role of local social networks in adjustment to foreign environments (Farh et al, 2010;Glanz et al, 2001;Johnson et al, 2003;Manev and Stevenson, 2001;Sobre-Denton and Hart, 2008). Social networks are a crucial source of social support, which in the context of adjustment refers to communication that helps individuals manage uncertainty and ambiguity and increases their perceptions of control regarding life (Albrecht and Adelman, 1987).…”

Section: Skilled Immigrant Women's Career Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

Nardon

Hari

Zhang

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PurposeDespite immigrant-receiving countries' need for skilled professionals to meet labour demands, research suggests that many skilled migrants undergo deskilling, downward career mobility, underemployment, unemployment and talent waste, finding themselves in low-skilled occupations that are not commensurate to their education and experience. Skilled immigrant women face additional gendered disadvantages, including a disproportionate domestic burden, interrupted careers and gender segmentation in occupations and organizations. This study explores how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted skilled newcomer women's labour market outcomes and work experiences.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw on 50 in-depth questionnaires with skilled women to elaborate on their work experiences during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsThe pandemic pushed skilled immigrant women towards unemployment, lower-skilled or less stable employment. Most study participants had their career trajectory delayed, interrupted or reversed due to layoffs, decreased job opportunities and increased domestic burden. The pandemic's gendered nature and the reliance on work-from-home arrangements and online job search heightened immigrant women's challenges due to limited social support and increased family responsibilities.Originality/valueThis paper adds to the conversation of increased integration challenges under pandemic conditions by contextualizing the pre-pandemic literature on immigrant work integration to the pandemic environment. Also, this paper contributes a better understanding of the gender dynamics informing the COVID-19 socio-economic climate.

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Section: Skilled Immigrant Women's Career Trajectoriesmentioning

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Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

Nardon

Hari

Zhang

et al. 2021

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“…Cognitive frames “contain relational conceptual information … that link[s] situations with actions and outcomes” (Cornelissen and Werner, 2014: 192) and thereby act as templates for action, directing attention and guiding individuals to select certain aspects of context as important (Leonardi, 2011). To resolve the ambiguity in the foreign context and make sense of their surroundings, migrants must access local interpretation schemas (Glanz et al, 2001; Nardon et al, 2015). Migrants’ sensemaking of job market discrepancies is thus highly susceptible to influence by agents within the foreign situational context.…”

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Making sense of foreign context

Aten

Nardon²,

Isabelle

2016

Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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This study amplifies understanding of the occupational marginalization of skilled migrants by elaborating the role of cognition in skilled migrants’ perception of contextual barriers and career options. Our qualitative analysis of interviews with 13 Filipino engineers who migrated to Canada revealed that migrants’ perceptions are influenced by their mobility frames. We identified three cognitive mobility frames: migrant, migrant professional, and mobile professional. We found that migrants accessed local interpretations of contextual barriers through interactions in the situational context and that migrants’ mobility frames focused their attention on particular individual resources and characteristics of context, suggesting potential career options.

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“…Reflection supports the organizing, clarifying, and sequencing of thoughts, facilitating a sense of coherence (Bolton, 2010;Gray, 2007) and acts as a bridge between experience and learning (Gray, 2007). Reflection involves both thoughts and feelings (Boud et al, 1985) and supports individuals to reevaluate their assumptions (Kayes, 2002), organize their experiences, understand what they think, and predict future events and outcomes (Glanz et al, 2001;Weick, 1995).…”

Section: Reflection As a Tool For Learning And Changementioning

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Reflective Interviewing—Increasing Social Impact through Research

Nardon

Hari

Aarma

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Scholars are increasingly calling for research that “makes a difference” through theoretical, practical, societal, and educational impacts. Recognizing that academic research lags behind practitioners’ issues and that most academic writing is inaccessible to those who need the knowledge, some scholars are calling for embedding social impact in the research process itself. We argue that participant reflection can increase social impact by changing the way individuals think, behave, and perform. Research interviews can be interventionist with the potential to facilitate participant reflection; however, the current literature on the topic is fragmented. We combine this fragmented literature with discussions of social impact and interview techniques to propose interview principles to facilitate participant reflection toward social impact. We hope to stimulate researchers across a broad range of disciplines to think more intentionally about the impactful role of a common qualitative methodological tool, interviews, to support research participants and engage in socially meaningful research.

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Sensemaking in expatriation?A theoretical basis

Cited by 39 publications

References 30 publications

Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

Making sense of foreign context

Reflective Interviewing—Increasing Social Impact through Research

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