'Survival employment': Gender and deskilling among african immigrants in Canada

International Migration

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 56-76

  Creese, Gillian ^a   Wiebe, Brandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; GENDER DISPARITY; GOVERNMENT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; IMMIGRATION POLICY; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION; MOBILITY; OCCUPATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

CANADA;

EID: 84866438110     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2009.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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