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The Emotional Struggle: Identity Formation

Sunaina Gowan (Taylors College, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia)

The Ethnically Diverse Workplace: Experience of Immigrant Indian Professionals in Australia

ISBN: 978-1-80382-054-5, eISBN: 978-1-80382-053-8

Publication date: 19 January 2023

Abstract

This chapter will showcase interesting anecdotes from immigrant Indian professionals working in Australian companies. The central normative dilemma is whether immigrants surrender some aspects of their identity, such as language or fashion sense, to integrate into mainstream Australian culture and institutions. Assimilation is defined as ‘being absorbed into the dominant society’s cultural tradition and thereby losing one’s unique character’ (Garcia & Van Soest, 2006, p. 14). It was discovered that although some immigrants saw the workplace as a cause of ridicule and exclusion, others see it as a means of personal validation and inclusion.

Citation

Gowan, S. (2023), "The Emotional Struggle: Identity Formation", The Ethnically Diverse Workplace: Experience of Immigrant Indian Professionals in Australia, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 93-109. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-053-820221005

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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