Making Sense of Foreign Contexts: Skilled Migrants' Perceptions of Contextual Barriers and Career Options
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Aten, Kathryn
Nardon, Luciara
Isabelle, Diane
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2015-11Metadata
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This study amplifies understanding of the occupational marginalization of skilled
migrants by elaborating the role of cognition in skilled migrants’ perception of contextual
barriers and career options. Our qualitative analysis of interviews with thirteen Filipino
engineers who migrated to Canada revealed that migrants’ perceptions are influenced by
their mobility frames. We identified three cognitive mobility frames: migrant, migrant
professional, and mobile professional. We found that migrants accessed local
interpretations of contextual barriers through interactions in the situational context and
that migrants’ mobility frames focused their attention on particular individual resources
and characteristics of context, suggesting potential career options.
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