Compromised careers: the occupational transition of immigration and resettlement.
Background: Work is a significant occupational transition that occurs with immigration and resettlement. Problems finding work and regaining economic capital are multi-factorial, differentiated by gender and mediated by specific contexts. Surprisingly, past education and work experience are unreliab...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 417 - 430 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2009
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