“We Don’t Integrate; We Adapt:” Latin American Immigrants Interpret Their Canadian Employment Experiences in Southwestern Ontario
“We Don’t Integrate; We Adapt:” Latin American Immigrants Interpret Their Canadian Employment Experiences in Southwestern Ontario
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“我们不融入；我们适应：”拉丁美洲移民解读他们在安大略省西南部的加拿大就业经历
DOI：
10.1007/s12134-014-0349-1
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Stacey Wilson
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作者：
Stacey Wilson
本研究采用深入访谈居住在西南部安大略的拉丁美洲移民，探讨移民如何解释他们的就业经验，更具体地说，就业经验如何影响他们融入接收社区。我的研究结果表明，技术移民（特别是那些通过加拿大的点系统选择的专业人士）到达西南部安大略完全打算融入，但他们无法找到合适的工作阻碍了与接收社区的密切互动。家庭和人道主义阶层的移民往往技能较低，在移民之前很少考虑文化适应问题。一旦到了加拿大，他们就认为接收社区满足了他们的基本就业需求，因此，他们与接收社区的规范、价值观和人民的互动略多一些。尽管这两个移民群体之间存在差异，但我的数据显示，几乎没有证据表明拉丁美洲移民与接收社会中出生于哥伦比亚的成员之间存在频繁和激烈的互动。研究参与者似乎是在需要的基础上与接受社会联系起来的;没有人似乎积极地寻找和吸收新事物，结识新朋友。有趣的是，也很少有证据表明拉丁美洲移民相互联系。
The present study uses in-depth interviews with Latin American immigrants residing in Southwestern Ontario to explore how the immigrants interpret their experiences with employment and, more specifically, how the employment experiences influence their perceived integration into the receiving communities. My research findings suggest that skilled immigrants (especially those professionals selected through Canada’s point system) arrive in Southwestern Ontario fully intending to integrate, but their inability to find suitable employment hinders close interaction with the receiving communities. Family and humanitarian class immigrants, who tend to be less skilled, give little thought to acculturation prior to migration. Once in Canada, they evaluate the receiving communities as satisfying their basic employment needs, and as a result, they interact slightly more with the receiving communities’ norms, values and people. Differences between the two immigrant groups notwithstanding, my data show little evidence of frequent and intense interactions between the Latin American immigrants and Canadian-born members of the receiving society. The research participants appear to relate to the receiving society on an as-needed basis; none appear to be aggressively searching for and absorbing new things and meeting new people. Interestingly, there is also little evidence of the Latin American immigrants relating to each other.