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Skilled Migration, Expectation and Reality
Ying Lu
Ramanie Samaratunge
其他書名
Chinese Professionals and the Global Labour Market
出版
Routledge
, 2016-04-01
主題
Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
Business & Economics / General
Business & Economics / Economics / General
Business & Economics / Research & Development
Social Science / Sociology / General
Business & Economics / International / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
Social Science / Regional Studies
ISBN
1317054520
9781317054528
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FabeCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Many governments seek to attract skilled migrants into the top occupational groups and now have significant groups of overseas-born professionals in their workforces. Such groups are expected to contribute significantly to the economic and social development of their new countries. There has been sustained debate between those taking the view that skilled migrants are integrated without much difficulty and those concerned that a mismatch between aspirational government policies and actual organisational practice generates discontent and frustration among skilled immigrants. If the latter is correct, it seems likely that host societies will not benefit from the injection of human capital in terms of creativity and innovation. In Skilled Migration, Expectation and Reality the authors report the findings of their research into the acculturation and integration issues confronting professional Chinese immigrants in the Australian labour market. Australia serves as a good example of the phenomenon under examination, being a country where Chinese are one of the largest non-English speaking ethnic groups and where they are strongly concentrated in the top occupational groups. The authors’ rigorous quantitative and qualitative study is one of the first systematic examinations of acculturation to focus specifically on the workplace. It reveals fascinating insights regarding the strategies that professional immigrants are compelled to adopt because they are unable to find appropriate channels through which to integrate and assimilate into the host society.