Prejudice and discrimination toward immigrants

VM Esses - Annual review of psychology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Prejudice and discrimination toward immigrants, and the consequences of these negative
attitudes and behavior, are key determinants of the economic, sociocultural, and civic …

Settlement and integration needs of skilled immigrants in Canada

V Kaushik, J Drolet - Social Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
It is often believed that the settlement and integration of skilled immigrants is moderately
easy in Canada, and that skilled immigrants do well in Canada after a brief adjustment …

The skill paradox: Explaining and reducing employment discrimination against skilled immigrants

J Dietz, C Joshi, VM Esses, LK Hamilton… - … International Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Using a social identity theory approach, we theorized that recruiters might be particularly
biased against skilled immigrant applicants. We refer to this phenomenon as a skill paradox …

Skilled migrants' career capital as a source of competitive advantage: Implications for strategic HRM

J Zikic - The International Journal of Human Resource …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Skilled migrants (SMs) are an important source of labour force growth in today's knowledge
economy in many parts of the world. Yet, management scholars have paid only scarce …

Road to nowhere or to somewhere? Migrant pathways in platform work in Canada

L Lam, A Triandafyllidou - Environment and Planning A …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Canada boasts some of the most highly educated migrants in the world, but it is well
recognised that these migrants face many labour market barriers to gainful employment …

Untapped Talent: The Costs of Brain Waste among Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States.

J Batalova, M Fix, JD Bachmeier - World Education Services, 2016 - ERIC
This study estimated the economic penalty that immigrant underemployment imposes, both
in forgone earnings and tax payments, using US Census Bureau data to analyze …

The colour of skill: Contesting a racialised regime of skill from the experience of recent immigrants in Canada

S Guo - Studies in Continuing Education, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This article contests a racialised skills regime in Canada. Canadian studies of the labour
market transitions of skilled immigrants are analysed through the lens of critical race theory …

Supporting Canada's COVID-19 resilience and recovery through robust immigration policy and programs

V Esses, J McRae, N Alboim, N Brown, C Friesen… - Facets, 2021 - facetsjournal.com
Canada has been seen globally as a leader in immigration and integration policies and
programs and as an attractive and welcoming country for immigrants, refugees, temporary …

[BOOK][B] Work in transition: Cultural capital and highly skilled migrants' passages into the labour market

AM Nohl, K Schittenhelm, O Schmidtke, A Weiss - 2014 - books.google.com
Despite the fact that many countries target highly skilled migrants for recruitment in the
global labour market, few of those migrants are able to take full advantage of their …

Branding 'Canadian experience'in immigration policy: Nation building in a neoliberal era

R Bhuyan, D Jeyapal, J Ku, I Sakamoto… - Journal of International …, 2017 - Springer
This paper examines the branding of 'Canadian experience'in Canadian immigration policy
as a rhetorical strategy for neoliberal nation-building. Since 2008, the Canadian government …