Crushed Hopes : Underemployment and Deskilling among Skilled Migrant Women / IOM.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

IOM.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human Rights and Refugees.

Local Subjects:

Human Rights and Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : International Organisation for Migration, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This report is a collective publication comprising a review of international literature on the subject of migrant deskilling and underemployment from a gender perspective and three empirical case studies from Switzerland, Canada and the United Kingdom. It explores the disproportionate difficulties skilled migrant women can face in transferring their skills and finding employment commensurate with their education when relocating to a new country. The case studies highlight situations in which migratory status and labour market dynamics can combine to constrain skilled and highly skilled migrant women to low-skilled occupations despite their often high human capital. They also analyse the impact that such occupational downgrading can have on migrant women's well-being and the strategies that women can adopt to regain a professional status.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Gender, migration and deskilling: A broad review of the literature

"I don't want to be stuck as a carer": The effects of deskilling on the livelihoods and opportunities of migrant care workers in England

The psychosocial impact of underemployment in the lives of skilled migrant women working in Geneva, Switzerland: An empirical study

Resilience strategies used by immigrant women facing professional deskilling in Quebec: A literature review and a small-scale study

Conclusions and perspectives.

ISBN:

9789210560337

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