Organizing for Immigrant Workforce Integration

Nardon, Luciara; Hari, Amrita

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“…, 2010), our career narratives demonstrate that sensemaking is not bound to one nation-state. Therefore, we strengthen recent calls for a transnational ontology to study sensemaking of international actors (Hari et al ., 2021; Nardon and Hari, 2022). The narratives of coping with international career transition we described deepen our understanding of international careers by highlighting simultaneous contextual influences of space (home, host and transit countries) and time (changes in life course and motivations).…”

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“…Immigrants live transnational lives (Hari et al. , 2021), and their sensemaking is not bounded to one national, institutional or organizational context (Nardon and Hari, 2022). They have multiple involvements in their home and host countries, and their social relations and activities cross-borders (Ozkazanc-Pan, 2019).…”

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Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change

Palic

Nardon

Hari

2023

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PurposeThe authors answer calls for research on the experiences of international professionals' career transitions by investigating how highly skilled immigrants make sense of their career changes in the host country's labor market.Design/methodology/approachThe authors report on a qualitative, inductive and elaborative study, drawing on sensemaking theories and career transitions literature and nine semi-structured reflective interviews with highly skilled Canadian immigrants.FindingsThe authors identified four career change narratives: mourning the past, accepting the present, recreating the past and starting fresh. These narratives are made sense of in a transnational context: participants contended with tensions between past, present and future careers and between relevant home and host country factors affecting their career decisions. Participants who were mourning the past or recreating the past identified more strongly with their home country professions and struggled to find resources in Canada. In accepting the present and starting fresh, participants leveraged host country networks to find career opportunities and establish themselves and their families in the new environment.Originality/valueA transnational ontology emphasizes that immigrants' lives are multifaceted and span multiple national contexts. The authors highlight how the tensions between the home and host country career contexts shape immigrants' sensemaking narratives of their international career change. The authors encourage scholars and practitioners to take a transnational contextual approach (spatial and temporal) to guide immigrants' career transitions and integration into the new social environment.

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Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change

Palic

Nardon

Hari

2023

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“…Migrants must negotiate ascribed identities and statuses, e.g. those imposed through legal recognition or administrative labelling, and exercise their agency to construct their notions of selves in socio-cultural settings and political-economic landscapes (for an overview see Nardon and Hari, 2022). To understand the unique experiences of integration, the factors that shape its processes and outcomes, and how to manage the associated challenges, requires us to examine the role of organizations at the centre of migration-related and cross-cultural exchange.…”

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Organizations and migrant integration: Towards a multiparadigm narrative approach

Primecz

Lugosi

Zølner

et al. 2023

Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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This paper explores the potential of conducting multiparadigm research within and beyond cross-cultural management, using narratives to examine how organizations shape migrant integration experiences and trajectories. It highlights the strengths of paradigmatic multiplicity in research with examples of three illustrative studies respectively using functionalist, interpretive and critical perspectives, while also considering the boundaries of these individual approaches. The paper proceeds to explore the potential of adopting a multiparadigm approach within a research strategy that places narratives at the centre of enquiry. It identifies the scope and focus of future research for a socially and politically important area of enquiry; it evaluates the application of diverse paradigm-driven methodological perspectives including the challenges involved in using them alone and in combination; and it develops a transferable framework to guide research in cross-cultural management, organization and migration studies that helps to assure procedural and conceptual rigour, and to generate practicable insights that facilitate successful integration outcomes.

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Organizing for Immigrant Workforce Integration

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Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change

Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change

Organizations and migrant integration: Towards a multiparadigm narrative approach

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