TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of skilled immigrants’ lived experience of using information to learn about their new setting.Design/methodology/approach Thematic analysis was conducted on a qualitative data set collected through 16 semi-structured interviews with newly arrived skilled immigrants in Australia.Findings The study uncovered six different themes of experiencing using information to learn among skilled immigrants. The themes, presented as a framework, explain skilled immigrants learn about their new life through: attending to shared stories by others; getting engaged; researching; comparing and contrasting past and present; being reflective; and being directly educated.Research limitations/implications The study presents the theory-to-practice translation approach of “information experience design” that enables the enactment of theoretical understanding of information research.Originality/value The study invites, encourages and enables information professionals to take part in interdisciplinary conversations about integration of skilled immigrants in their host countries. Using the presented framework in the study, information professionals will be able to explain skilled immigrants’ learning about their new setting from an information lens. This provides information professionals an opportunity to work with immigration service stakeholders to help them incorporate the presented framework in their real-world practice and service. Such practice and services are of potential to support newly arrived skilled immigrants to become more information literate citizens of the host society who can participate more fully in their host society.
VL  - 75
IS  - 4
SN  - 0022-0418
DO  - 10.1108/JD-02-2019-0034
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2019-0034
AU  - Sayyad Abdi Elham
AU  - Partridge Helen
AU  - Bruce Christine
AU  - Watson Jason
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Skilled immigrants: a resettlement information literacy framework
T2  - Journal of Documentation
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 892
EP  - 908
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -