NDLI: Rebuilding Professional Lives: Immigrant Professionals Working in the Ontario Settlement Service Sector

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Author	Türegün, Adnan
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Based on an online survey and in-depth interviews conducted from 2009 to 2010, this study looks at the reality of a particular group of foreign-born and foreign-trained professionals in Ontario. These are the professionals who did not get to practise their respective professions after immigration but acquired a new profession in the form of settlement work. The study identifies their pre-immigration education and work history, the reasons they left their countries of origin (or of permanent residence) for Canada, the expectations they had, the choices they made about pursuing professional practice, the efforts they put towards that or some alternative goal, and their eventual professional reconstitution as settlement workers. Following the Canadian trajectory of these dual professionals has three contributions to research into immigrant access to professions. First, their individual experiences reveal the social processes of inclusion in, and exclusion from, professional practice. Second, unlike those immigrants who are de-professionalized in the post-immigration period, our target population reinvent themselves as practitioners of a new profession and thus provide a more nuanced immigrant experience. Third, their common practice as settlement workers gives us insight into the dynamics of an emerging profession that is settlement work.
Starting Page	597
Ending Page	614
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14883473
Journal	Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	18746365
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-10-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Immigrant access to professions and trades Recognition of foreign credentials Settlement workers Professionalization of settlement work Migration Demography Sociology Population Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Demography Anthropology Cultural Studies

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