The experiences of immigrants who volunteer to access the labour market: Pushing the boundaries of "volunteerism"

Volunteer Work, Informal Learning and Social Action

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 101-114

  Slade, Bonnie ^a   Luo, Yang Cathy ^b   Schugurensky, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Hincks Dellcrest Centre   (Canada)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85022024273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6209-233-4     Document Type: Chapter

References (38)

1. Alboim, N., & The Maytree Foundation. (2002). Fulfilling the promise: Integrating immigrant skills into the Canadian economy. Toronto: Caledon Institute of Social Policy.
2. Basran, G.S., & Li, Z. (1998). Devaluation of foreign credentials as perceived by visible minority professionals. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 30(3), 6-23.
3. Boyd, M., & Thomas, D. (2002). Skilled immigrant labour: Country of origin and the occupational locations of male engineers. Canadian Studies in Population, 29(1), 71-99.
4. Cnaan, R.A., Handy, F., & Wadsworth, M. (1996). Defining who is a volunteer: Conceptual and empirical considerations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 25(3), 364-383.
5. Couton, P. (2002). Highly skilled immigrants: Recent trends and issues. ISUMA: Canadian Journal of Policy Research, 3(2), 114-23.
6. Creese, G. and Wiebe, B. (2009). 'Survival Employment': Gender and deskilling among African immigrants in Canada. International Migration. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2009.00531.x
7. Dang, M. (2005). Placement of foreign trained engineers. (March, 27). The Weekender, p. 3.
8. Galabuzi, G.E. (2006). Canada's Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century. Toronto: Canada's Scholars Press.
9. Gogia, N., & Slade, B. (2011). About Canada: Immigration. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
10. Grenier, G., & Xue, L. (2011). Canadian Immigrants' Access to a First Job in Their Intended Occupation. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 12(3), 275-303.
11. Guo, S. (2010). False promises in the new economy: Barriers facing the transition of recent Chinese immigrants in Edmonton. In P. Sawchuk & A. Taylor (Eds.), Challenging transitions in learning and work: Perspectives on policy and practice (pp.243-260). Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
12. Guo, S. (2009). Difference, deficiency, and devaluation: Tracing the roots of non/recognition of foreign credentials for immigrant professionals in Canada. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 22(1), 37-52.
13. Guo, S. (2007). Immigrants as active citizens: Learning in social action. In L. Servage & T. Fenwick (Eds.). Learning in Community. Proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) and the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE) (pp. 265-270). Toronto: CASAE.
14. Jackson, A. (2002). Is Work Working for Workers of Colour? Ottawa: Canadian Labour Congress.
15. Kenney, J. (2012). On "Moving Towards a Targeted, Fast and Efficient Immigration System focusing on Jobs, Growth and Prosperity" to the Surrey Board of Trade. (Speaking notes for The Honourable Jason Kenney, P.C., M.P. Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism). Retrieved August 20,http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/speeches/2012/2012-06-26.asp
16. Kofman, E. (1999). Female birds of passage a decade later: Gender and immigration in the European Union. International Migration Review, 33(2), 269-299.
17. Kunz, J., Milan, A., & Schetagne, S. (2000). Unequal access: A Canadian profile of racial differences in education, employment and income. Toronto: Canadian Race Relations Foundation.
18. Li, P. (2001). The market worth of immigrants' educational credentials. Canadian Public Policy, 27(1), 23-38.
19. Livingstone, D.W., Myles, J., Doray, P., Hubich, L., & Collins, M. (2004). National Survey of Learning and Work. Retrieved August 20, 2012 from http://wall.oise.utoronto.ca/research/research_teams.htm.
20. Mirchandani, K., Ng, R., Coloma-Moya, N., Maitra, S., Rawlings, T., Shan, H., Siddiqui, K., & Slade, B. (2010). The entrenchment of racial categories in precarious employment. In N. Pupo, D. Glenday & A. Duffy (Eds.) The Shifting Landscape of Work, (pp 119-138). Toronto: Nelson Educational Ltd.
21. Mirchandani, K. (2003). Racialization, learning and contingent workers: Developing new understandings of work-related learning. In D. Flowers et al. (Eds.) American Educational Research Council 2003 Conference Proceedings (pp. 291-296). San Francisco.
22. Ornstien, M. (2000). Ethno-racial inequality in Toronto: analysis of the 1996 census. Toronto: City of Toronto.
23. Reitz, J.G. (2007). "Immigrant employment success in Canada, Part II: Understanding the Decline." Journal of International Migration and Integration, 8(1), 37-62.
24. Reitz, J. (2001a). Immigrant success in the knowledge economy: Institutional change and the immigrant experience in Canada, 1970-1995. Journal of Social Issues, 57(3), 579-613.
25. Reitz, J. (2001b). Immigrant skill utilization in the Canadian labour market: Implications of human capital research. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2(3), 347-378.
26. Reitz, J., & Banerjee, R. (2007). Racial inequality, social cohesion, and policy issues in Canada. In K. Banting, T.J. Courchene, & F. Leslie Seidle (Eds.). Belonging? diversity, recognition and shared citizenship in Canada (pp. 489-545). Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy.
27. Sangha, J., Slade, B., Mirchandani, K., Maitra, S., & Shan, H. (2012). An ethnodrama on work-related learning in precarious jobs: racialization and resistance. Qualitative Inquiry, 18(3), 286-296.
28. Schugurensky, D., & Mündel, K. (June, 2005). Informal learning and volunteer work: insights from three case studies. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Working and Lifelong Learning Research Network (pp. 202-208). Toronto: Centre for the Study of Education and Work.
29. Shan, H. (2012). Learning to "fit in": The emotional work of Chinese immigrant engineers in Canada, Journal of Workplace Learning, 24(5). doi: 10.1108/13665621211239886
30. Shan, H. (2009). Practices on the periphery: Chinese immigrant women negotiating occupational niches in Canada. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 21(2), 1-18.
31. Slade, B. (2012). 'From high skill to high school': Illustrating the process of deskilling immigrants through reader's theatre and institutional ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry, 18(5), 401-413.
32. Slade, B. (2011). "The ideological construction of 'Canadian work experience': Adult education and the reproduction of labour and difference". In Sara Carpenter and Shahrzad Mojab (Eds.) Educating from Marx: Race, Gender and Learning (pp. 137-166). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
33. Slade, B. (2008). Engineering barriers: An empirical investigation into the mechanics of downward mobility. Socialist Studies, 4(2), 21-40.
34. Slade, B. (2004). Highly Skilled and under-theorized: Women migrant professionals. In R. Baaba Folson (Ed.) Calculated Kindness: Global Economic Restructuring and Canadian Immigration & Settlement Policy (pp. 102-116). New York: Routledge.
35. Statistics Canada. (2003). Longitudinal survey of immigrants to Canada. The Daily. Thursday, September 4,Retrieved August 20, 2012 from http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=get Survey&SDDS=4422&lang=en&db=imdb&adm=8&dis=2.
36. Teo, S.Y. (2004). Between imagination and reality: Tales of skilled immigrants from China. Canadian Diversity, 3(2), 21-31.
37. Volunteer Canada. (2007). Volunteer Canada annual report 2006-7. Retrieved August 20, 2012, from http://volunteer.ca/files/Annual_report_06-07%20WEB.pdf.
38. Xu, L. (2012). Who Drives a Taxi in Canada? Ottawa: Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Retrieved August 20, 2012 from http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/research-stats/taxi.pdf.