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245	0	0	_aMaking critical sense of immigrant experience : _ba case study of Hong Kong Chinese in Canada / _cRosalie K.S. Hilde (Thompson Rivers University).
264		1	_bEmerald Publishing Limited,
300			_a1 online resource (xviii, 160 pages).
490	1		_aCritical management studies, _x2059-6561
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aPrelims -- 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.
520			_aThis 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 immigrants' identities are grounded by contextual sensemaking elements. Data show that informants have accepted unchallenged assumptions: (1) that the government is providing help for them to "get in" the workplace; and (2) that the ethnic service organizations are offering positive guidance to their workplace opportunities. At the organizational level, a master discourse emphasizing integration has mediated immigrants' struggles. Within these frustrations, many have internalized a hidden discourse of inadequate or deficient selves and adopted a sacrificial position to maintain a positive sense of identity. The study concludes that a critical sensemaking approach allows greater insights into immigration processes than realist surveys, which tend to impose a pre-packaged sense of the immigrant experience. Through critical sensemaking, readers are encouraged to rethink the current role of ethnic service organizations in the immigration system.
588	0		_aPrint version record
650		0	_aChinese _zCanada _xEmployment.
650		0	_aImmigrants _zCanada _xEmployment.
650		0	_aDiversity in the workplace _zCanada.
651		0	_aHong Kong (China) _xEmigration and immigration.
651		0	_aCanada _xEmigration and immigration.
700	1		_aHilde, Rosalie K. S., _eeditor.
776			_z9781787436633
830		0	_aCritical management studies (Series). _x2059-6561
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S2059-6561201702
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