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Refugees, recent migrants and employment : challenging barriers and exploring pathways / edited by Sonia McKay.
Lippincott Library HD6300 .R44 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in population and migration ; 11.
- Routledge research in population and migration
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers.
- Refugees--Employment.
- Refugees.
- Immigrants--Employment.
- Immigrants.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Contents:
- Part I Concepts and Methodologies
- 1 The Commonalities of Experience: Refugees and Recent Migrants / Sonia Mckay 11
- 2 Employability and International Migration: Theoretical Perspectives / Allan M. Williams 23
- 3 Methodological Challenges in Researching the Working Experiences of Refugees and Recent Migrants / Sonia Mckay, Paula Snyder 35
- Part II State Policies in Relation to Migrants and Refugees
- 4 Legal Frameworks Regulating the Employment of Refugees and Recent Migrants / Tessa Wright, Sonia Mckay 53
- 5 The 'Visibly Different' Refugees in the Australian Labour Market: Settlement Policies and Employment Realities / Val Colic-Peisker 67
- 6 Migrants' Paths in the Italian Labour Market and in the Migrant Regulatory Frameworks: Precariousness as a Constant Factor / Giovanni Mottura, matteo Rinaldini 84
- 7 Citizenship and the Disciplining of (Im)migrant Workers in the United States / Nandita Sharma 102
- 8 Trade Unions, Migration and Racism in France / Steve Jefferys 121
- 9 Recent Migrants in the Canadian Labour Market: Exploring the Impacts of Gender and Racialisation / Valerie Preston, Silvia D'addario 139
- Part III Structural Discrimination and Strategies of Response
- 10 Barriers to the Labour Market: Refugees in Britain / Alice Bloch 165
- 11 Immigration and Labour Market Integration / Anne E. Green 184
- 12 Looking for Work: Exploring the Job Search Methods of Recent Refugees and Migrants / Sonia Mckay 200
- 13 Employability Initiatives for Refugees in the EU: Building on Good Practice / Jenny Phillimore 215
- 14 The Future of Work for Recent Migrants and Refugees / Sonia Mckay 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415988773
- 0415988772
- OCLC:
- 213765881
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