| Description |
1 online resource |
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Critical management studies |
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Critical management studies (Series)
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 discursive approaches |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-146) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2017) |
| Subject |
Chinese -- Canada.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Chinese
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Emigration and immigration
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| SUBJECT |
Hong Kong (China) -- Emigration and immigration
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Canada -- Emigration and immigration
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| Subject |
Canada
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China -- Hong Kong
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787436626 |
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1787436624 |
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