Making Sense of Immigrant Work Integration: An Organizing Framework (International Marketing and Management Research)

✍ Scribed by Luciara Nardon, Amrita Hari

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 125
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This open access book explores the wicked problem of immigrant work integration, with specific examples from Canada. Bringing together a variety of disciplinary perspectives, it discusses immigrant work integration as a process of sensemaking, involving multiple actors (immigrants, organizations, communities, and governments) and multiple scales (individual, interactional, organizational, and institutional). The authors identify key players, issues, practices of support, and avenues for future research. This work contributes to enhancing the social impact of academic research by providing a comprehensive overview of the field of immigrant work integration for researchers in global mobility and organizational studies, as well as practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Immigrant Work Integration: A Wicked Problem
1.1 Immigrants
1.2 Theoretical Approach
1.2.1 Sensemaking and Immigrant Work Integration
1.3 Our Approach
1.4 The Road Ahead
1.5 Key Points
Note
References
2 The Sensemaking Perspective
2.1 Properties of Sensemaking
2.1.1 Grounded in Identity Construction
2.1.2 Retrospective
2.1.3 Enactive of Sensible Environments
2.1.4 Social
2.1.5 Ongoing
2.1.6 Focused on and by Extracted Cues
2.1.7 Driven by Plausibility Rather Than Accuracy
2.2 Levels of Sensemaking
2.2.1 Individual Level
2.2.2 Interactional Level
2.2.3 Organizational Level
2.2.4 Institutional Level
2.2.5 Interdependence of Levels of Sensemaking
2.3 The Road Ahead
2.4 Key Points
Notes
References
3 The Immigrant Sensemaker
3.1 Sensemakers and Sensemaking
3.2 Identity Work
3.2.1 Professional Identity and Work Integration
3.2.2 Coping with Identity Threats
3.3 Intersecting Identities
3.3.1 Identity Processes Are Social and Ongoing
3.4 Practical Insights
3.5 The Road Ahead
3.6 Key Points
Note
References
4 Powerful Interactions for Integration
4.1 Communication and Sensemaking
4.1.1 Intercultural Communication
4.2 Intercultural Competence
4.3 Selected Powerful Interactions
4.3.1 Immigrant Support Staff
4.3.2 Mentors
4.3.3 Coaches
4.3.4 Professional Networks
4.4 Practical Insights
4.5 The Road Ahead
4.6 Key Points
Note
References
5 Organizing for Immigrant Workforce Integration
5.1 Communication and Organizing
5.2 Prominent Organizational Actors Involved in Immigrant Work Integration
5.2.1 Immigrant Service Provider Organization (SPO)
5.2.2 Employers
5.2.3 Professional Organizations
5.2.4 Educational Institutions
5.3 Practical Insights
5.4 The Road Ahead
5.5 Key Points
Note
References
6 The Macro Context of Immigration
6.1 Master Narratives and Sensemaking
6.2 Multiculturalism
6.2.1 Everyday Multiculturalism
6.3 Good Worker, Good Citizen
6.3.1 Why Make a Skilled Distinction?
6.3.2 Desirable Immigrants
6.4 Immigration and Colonialism
6.5 Practical Insights
6.6 The Road Ahead
6.7 Key Points
Note
References
7 Extending Sensemaking of Immigrant Integration
7.1 Challenges of Studying the Process of Sensemaking
7.1.1 Longitudinal Mixed-Method Design
7.1.2 Reflective Interviews
7.2 Extending Sensemaking: Transnational Sensemaking
7.3 Practical Insights
7.4 The Road Ahead
7.5 Concluding Thoughts
7.6 Key Points
Note
References
Index