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Imagining Globally, Adapting Locally: How Highly Educated International Migrants Launch Careers in an Uncertain World
Imagining Globally, Adapting Locally: How Highly Educated International Migrants Launch Careers in an Uncertain World
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104802
- ISBN
- 9798288884283
- DDC
- 301
- 저자명
- Liang, Yingjian.
- 서명/저자
- Imagining Globally, Adapting Locally: How Highly Educated International Migrants Launch Careers in an Uncertain World
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Indiana University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 188 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-01, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Okamoto, Dina.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Existing sociological research has shown that highly educated immigrants face labor market barriers to career advancement, relative to their native-born counterparts, due to uncertain legal status, limited social networks, and a perceived lack of cultural fit with employers' expectations. Yet, remaining understudied is how highly educated immigrants navigate these barriers as they plan and pursue career success in host societies, and through what processes highly educated immigrants may overcome these barriers or reproduce their disadvantages. My dissertation explores these questions using a longitudinal qualitative study that follows the school-to-work transition process of 55 international graduate students in computer science and engineering, with 10 US-born students as a reference group. Specifically, this dissertation examines the interconnected processes of how these US-trained, highly educated immigrants 1) plan career and migration trajectories, 2) seek job referrals critical for advancing to interviews, and 3) strategize for success in job interviews. My analysis of these three phases of career launch reveals previously under-theorized processes key to overcoming their disadvantages: in response to legal status uncertainty, respondents articulated flexible imagined trajectories, expressing clear near future plans while keeping long-term plans open-ended and evolving; to overcome disadvantages in network access, respondents used chained connections, activating intermediary ties to facilitate new tie formation and activation; to address their perceived lack of cultural fit, respondents enacted cultural adaptation, updating their self-presentations drawing on what they learned from employers and networks. These findings better explain how highly educated immigrants with similar human capital and facing similar labor market challenges may diverge in their career outcomes. The articulated processes also advance theories on worker consent, social networks, and cultural mechanisms of labor market inequality.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology
- 키워드
- Cultural fit
- 키워드
- Inequality
- 키워드
- Job search
- 키워드
- Social networks
- 기타저자
- Indiana University Sociology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-01A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aExisting sociological research has shown that highly educated immigrants face labor market barriers to career advancement, relative to their native-born counterparts, due to uncertain legal status, limited social networks, and a perceived lack of cultural fit with employers' expectations. Yet, remaining understudied is how highly educated immigrants navigate these barriers as they plan and pursue career success in host societies, and through what processes highly educated immigrants may overcome these barriers or reproduce their disadvantages. My dissertation explores these questions using a longitudinal qualitative study that follows the school-to-work transition process of 55 international graduate students in computer science and engineering, with 10 US-born students as a reference group. Specifically, this dissertation examines the interconnected processes of how these US-trained, highly educated immigrants 1) plan career and migration trajectories, 2) seek job referrals critical for advancing to interviews, and 3) strategize for success in job interviews. My analysis of these three phases of career launch reveals previously under-theorized processes key to overcoming their disadvantages: in response to legal status uncertainty, respondents articulated flexible imagined trajectories, expressing clear near future plans while keeping long-term plans open-ended and evolving; to overcome disadvantages in network access, respondents used chained connections, activating intermediary ties to facilitate new tie formation and activation; to address their perceived lack of cultural fit, respondents enacted cultural adaptation, updating their self-presentations drawing on what they learned from employers and networks. These findings better explain how highly educated immigrants with similar human capital and facing similar labor market challenges may diverge in their career outcomes. The articulated processes also advance theories on worker consent, social networks, and cultural mechanisms of labor market inequality.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17358864▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
