“…They range from immigrants' lack of English proficiency (Boyd 1990), cultural capital (Bauder and Cameron 2002) and social capital (Xue 2008), to the devaluation of immigrants' credentials and experience (e.g., Guo 2010; Ng and Shan 2010; Shan 2009a), demands for Canadian work experience (e.g., Chakkalakal and Harvey 2001;Sakamoto, Chin, and Young 2010;Slade 2012) as well as institutionalised racism and sexism (e.g., Ng 1988;Man 2004). With few exceptions (Ng and Shan 2010;Shan 2009aShan , 2009bShan , 2012Shan , 2013, little attention has been paid to how immigrants try to manage their employment after immigration. This paper contributes to this void of the scholarship by examining how a group of Chinese immigrant women professionals rebuild their careers and status after migration.…”