Practices on the Periphery: Highly Educated Chinese Immigrant
Women Making Occupational Niches in Canada

Hongxia Shan

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Practices on the Periphery: Highly Educated Chinese Immigrant Women Making Occupational Niches in Canada

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- Hongxia Shan
- OISE/University of Toronto

Abstract

I examine learning as part of the process where immigrants negotiate personal and profession identities and participate in the Canadian labour market. I argue for a mutually-constitutive relationship between individual practices, identity construction and Canadian workplace accessibility and receptivity underpinned by gender, race and class relations and perceived language differences.

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How to Cite: Shan, H. (2007) “Practices on the Periphery: Highly Educated Chinese Immigrant Women Making Occupational Niches in Canada”, Adult Education Research Conference. 1(2007).