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Lookup NU author(s): Andrew Kozhevnikov, Professor Tracy ScurryORCiD, Professor Steve VincentORCiD
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Transferring skilled careers internationally is a pressing issue, not least because migrant careers are often stymied by social and cultural boundaries. As a consequence, increasing knowledge of these boundaries, how migrants are affected by them and their career strategies at transcending them is important. The analysis identifies two distinctive strategies available to skilled migrants. Skilled migrants must, to a certain extent, “fit in”, or conform to local institutional rule and cultural value systems, but they may also “stand out”, and use their cultural distinctiveness as a form of advantage. However, these strategies were not equally available to all. Outcomes depended on personal resources available to specific migrants and how they were positioned within the labour market [viz. field] studied. The analysis combines critical realist and Bourdieusian structuration theories to develop a non-conflating, resource-based form of structuration theory, which has broader applicability to the field of careers studies.
Author(s): Kozhevnikov A, Scurry T, Vincent S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Submitted
Journal: Human Relations
Year: 2020
Publisher: Tavistock Institute
