Making critical sense of immigrant experience : a case study of Hong Kong Chinese in Canada /

This book provides a critical voice to immigrants through their subjective workplace experiences. Through a lens of critical sensemaking (CSM), stakeholders can understand the role of sensemaking in immigrants' decisions and to refocus the debate around immigration policy from structural to dis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hilde, Rosalie K. S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Critical management studies (Series)
Temas:
Chinese > Canada.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Chinese
Emigration and immigration
Hong Kong (China) > Emigration and immigration.
Canada > Emigration and immigration.
Canada
China > Hong Kong
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Making Critical Sense of Immigrant Experience
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • About the Book
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Introduction and Outline
  • 1.1. An Overview of Contemporary Immigrant Issues
  • 1.2. Introduction to the Study
  • 1.3. The Contribution of This Study
  • 1.4. An Insiderâ#x80;#x99;s Voice
  • 1.5. Some Definitions
  • 1.6. Outline of the Chapters
  • Chapter 2 Deconstructing Immigrant Identity Work
  • 2.1. Overview of This Chapter
  • 2.2. Theme One: Structural Approaches to Visible Minority Immigrants2.3. Theme Two: Identity Construction through Social Constructionism
  • 2.4. Theme Three: Poststructuralist Literature on Identity Work
  • Chapter 3 Methodological Approach
  • 3.1. Overview of This Chapter
  • 3.2. The Poststructuralist Perspective
  • 3.3. Critical Sensemaking as a Conceptual Framework
  • 3.3.1. Element One: Socio-Psychological Properties
  • 3.3.2. Element Two: Formative Contexts
  • 3.3.3. Element Three: Organizational Rules
  • 3.3.4. Element Four: Foucauldian Discourse
  • Chapter 4 Research Design4.1. My Access and the Informants
  • 4.2. Translation and Transcription
  • 4.3. Other Texts
  • 4.4. Ethical Considerations and Reflexivity
  • 4.5. Data Analysis
  • Chapter 5 Capturing the Discursive Elements of the Formative Context Retrospectively
  • 5.1. Formative Context
  • 5.2. The History of Chinese Immigrants in Canada and Canadian Immigration Policy
  • 5.3. Immigrant Interview Accounts
  • 5.4. The Political Sense of the Chinese Administration
  • 5.5. The Lifestyle Discourse
  • 5.6. In the Shadow of Whiteness: The Colonial Influence
  • 5.7. Hong Kong's Workplace Culture and Work IdentityChapter 6 Searching for Plausible Cues and Institutional Rules: The Politics of Normality
  • 6.1. The Institutional Field and the Notion of a Deficient Self
  • 6.2. Organizational Rules and Funding Requirements
  • 6.3. The Dominant Discourse of Integration
  • 6.3.1. The Integration Game
  • 6.3.2. Rule #1: Networking
  • 6.3.3. Rule #2: Volunteering
  • 6.3.4. Rule #3: Local Qualifications
  • 6.3.5. Rule #4: Speak English Well
  • 6.3.6. Rule #5: Cultural Rules
  • 6.3.7. Rule #6: Lower Your Pride
  • 6.4. A Silent Discourse of Exploitation6.4.1. Intra-Ethnic Oppression: Being in a CORNer
  • 6.4.1.1. Working in Chinese-Owned Organizations: Life Outside the Mainstream
  • 6.4.1.2. Instrumental Exploitation
  • 6.4.1.3. Co-Workers: Established Immigrants
  • 6.4.1.4. Harshness
  • 6.4.1.5. Accepting the Unacceptable
  • 6.4.1.6. Voluntary Exploitation
  • Chapter 7 Agency and Identity Labels: The Micro-Processes of Resistance
  • 7.1. Identity Labels
  • 7.1.1. Refusing to Play the Game
  • 7.1.2. The Deficient Self
  • 7.1.3. Gendering
  • 7.2. The In-between Self

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