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- Title
Immigrant Youth and Employment: Lessons Learned from the Analysis of LSIC and 82 Lived Stories.
- Authors
Lauer, Sean; Wilkinson, Lori; Yan, Miu; Sin, Rick; Tsang, A.
- Abstract
Finding a job has become a critical challenge to many youth. Immigrant youth, who have been a key part of the global migrants, are particularly vulnerable when entering the job market of the host country due to various structural barriers. However, in both public policy discourse and research, their labour market experience tends to be overlooked. In this paper, we report the employment experience of recently arrived immigrant youth based on an analysis of the LSIC and findings of in-depth interviews of 82 immigrant youth in four cities in Canada. Our results reveal that recently arrived immigrant youth tend to work in lower-skilled employment, experience significant delays in finding employment, have difficulties with foreign credential recognition, and have fewer means to access to job markets.
- Subjects
CANADA; FOREIGN workers; YOUTH employment; YOUTH; JOB hunting; JOB qualifications; SEMISKILLED labor; SOCIAL networks; STRESS (Linguistics)
- Publication
Journal of International Migration & Integration, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1488-3473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12134-011-0189-1