Labour Market Discrimination: the Lived Experiences of English-Speaking Caribbean Immigrants in Toronto

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• 作者：Ron Robert Branker
• 关键词：Race discrimination ; Gender discrimination ; Immigration policy ; Human capital ; Labour market
• 刊名：Journal of International Migration and Integration
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 页码：203-222
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• 刊物主题：Migration; Demography; Sociology, general; Population Economics;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1874-6365
• 卷排序：18

文摘

The study examined the lived experiences of immigrants in Toronto from Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, with emphasis on their perceptions and experiences of labour market discrimination. The study employs a qualitative methodology and adopts a critical policy research framework which included a series of in-depth interviews. Based on the central argument that there is a disjuncture between the human capital model used at the policy level and the understanding of immigrant human capital on the ground, the study has found structural and institutional practices inherent in the Canadian labour market that are principal reasons for many immigrants’ poor labour market outcomes. Evidence from the study strongly suggests that there is an issue of racism and sexism at play in the Canadian labour market that negatively affects outcomes for Caribbean immigrants in Toronto.