Index

Making Critical Sense of Immigrant Experience

ISBN: 978-1-78743-663-3, eISBN: 978-1-78743-662-6

ISSN: 2059-6561

Publication date: 2 November 2017

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(2017), "Index", Making Critical Sense of Immigrant Experience (Critical Management Studies), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 155-160. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2059-65612017013

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INDEX

Abella Commission Report
, 4

Aboriginal groups
, 12

Access discrimination
, 18, 19–21

Adequate credentials
, 3–4

Agency

defined
, 99

idea of
, 99–100

Alvesson, M.
, 27–28

Asian immigrants
, 4

Beech, N.
, 23

Bell, Carole
, 56

Benschop, Y.
, 126

Blackler, F.
, 53

Bonacich, E.
, 4

Canada

Chinese immigrants
, 54–56

employment equity
, 125

immigration policy
, 54–56

Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)
, 54

Caucasian culture
, 83

Cheng, L.
, 4

Chinese administration, in Hong Kong
, 58–60

Chinese immigrants, in Canada

CPR
, 54

discrimination
, 55–56

head tax
, 54

history of
, 54–56

Chinese Immigration (Exclusion) Act
, 54–55

Chinese Open Resource Network (CORN)
, 40–41

documents
, 44

Chinese-owned organizations
, 92–93

CIC. See Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)
, 75

Clegg, S.
, 24, 72

CMS. See Critical Management Studies (CMS)

Cobb, J.
, 123

Colonial influence
, 62–64

Community information, for integration
, 84

Conformity
, 130

Contributions
, 125–127

CORN. See Chinese Open Resource Network (CORN)

Cost of immigration
, 112–115

depression
, 113–114

divorce and quarrels
, 114–115

suicide attempt
, 113

Co-workers (established immigrants), exploitation and
, 94

CPR. See Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)

Critical Management Studies (CMS)
, 24

Critical Sensemaking
, 32–38, 129–130

complex issues and
, 127

formative contexts
, 36

Foucauldian discourse
, 37–38

framework
, 126–127

future directions of
, 129

organizational rules
, 36–37

socio-psychological properties
, 33–36

value of
, 38

Crown land
, 55

Cultural hegemony
, 5

Cultural rules
, 88–89

Data analysis
, 46–50

Data source triangulation
, 44

Deficient self
, 78–79, 90, 92, 97, 103–104, 112–113

Depression
, 113–114

Derrida, Jacques
, 29–30

Dim Sum Diaries
, 56

Disciplinary power
, 30

Discrimination
, 8–9, 108

access
, 18, 19–21

color blindness toward
, 55

treatment
, 18, 19

Dividing process
, 30

Divorce
, 114–115

Dominant discourse of integration
, 82–91, 122, 123

Economic exploitation
, 4

Educational degree, local, for integration
, 84–85, 87

Employment

assessment sessions
, 80–81

equity
, 125

inequality. See Workplace inequality

Employment, outside of the mainstream
, 92–93

Employment Equity Act of Canada
, 52

Enactment of sensemaking
, 34

English, speaking, for integration
, 87–88

Ethical considerations
, 45–46

Exploitation
, 91–97, 122

accepting the unacceptable
, 95–96

Chinese-owned organizations
, 92–93

co-workers (established immigrants)
, 94

harshness
, 94–95

instrumental
, 93–94

intra-ethnic
, 91–96

voluntary
, 96–97

Festinger, L.
, 33

Formative context
, 36

conflicts
, 52–53

overview
, 51–52

See also Critical Sensemaking

Foucauldian discourse
, 5, 12, 30

Foucault, M.
, 5, 27, 28–31

Funding, multi-ethnic service organizations
, 74

government
, 81–82

requirement of
, 79–82

Gender, identity work and
, 104–105

Goffman, E.
, 13, 33

Government documents
, 44

Government funding
, 81–82

Gramsci, A.
, 5

Hardy, C.
, 37, 40, 44, 48, 49

Harshness
, 94–95

Helms Mills, J. C.
, 6, 22, 32, 36, 51, 53, 90, 100

Hierarchal division
, 121–122

Hilde, Rosalie
, 40

Hollensbe, E. C.
, 23

Hong Kong

Chinese administration
, 58–60

colonial influence
, 62–64

lifestyle discourse
, 60–62

riot of 1967
, 58–59

Sino-British Agreement
, 59

workplace culture and work identity
, 64–69

Identity

changing
, 23

defined
, 12–13

Identity construction
, 18–19

sensemaking
, 33–34

social constructionism
, 21–24

Identity labels
, 12–13, 101–105

deficient self
, 103–104

gender and
, 104–105

Identity work

critical
, 25

organizational context of
, 24–25

organizational shock and
, 22

poststructuralist literature on
, 24–26

social constructionism
, 21–24

theories
, 25

Immigrants

citizenship
, 2

defined
, 12

first-generation
, 13, 20–21

hierarchal division between mainstream Canadians and
, 121–122

integration of
, 2

interview accounts of
, 56–58

Immigration
, 1–2

cost of
, 112–115

Immigration policy

Canadian
, 54–56, 75

United States
, 1–2

In-between self
, 105–112

being Chinese
, 108–109

exclusion
, 109

helpful but also helpless
, 106–107

racial discrimination
, 108

struggling
, 109–112

useful but useless
, 107

Informants, of research study
, 40–42, 120

Insider’s voice
, 10–11

Instrumental exploitation
, 93–94

Integration, of immigrants
, 2

cultural rules
, 88–89

dominant discourse of
, 82–91, 122, 123

English
, 87–88

local qualifications
, 87

lowering pride
, 89–91

narratives
, 83–85

networking
, 85–86

volunteering
, 86–87

Interviews
, 40–42

immigrant accounts
, 56–58

Intra-ethnic oppression
, 92–97

accepting the unacceptable
, 95–96

Chinese-owned organizations
, 92–93

co-workers (established immigrants)
, 94

harshness
, 94–95

instrumental exploitation
, 93–94

voluntary exploitation
, 96–97

Janssens, M.
, 126

Job, as sacrifice
, 130

Job search template
, 75–76, 79

Knights, D.
, 30

Kreiner, G. E.
, 23

Lacan, Jacques
, 29

Language
, 13–14

Lemert, C.
, 28

Life outside the mainstream
, 92–93

Lifestyle discourse
, 60–62

Linstead, S. A.
, 30

Local educational degree for integration
, 84–85, 87

Lowering pride, for integration
, 89–91

Macro-identity
, 23

Mann Gulch disaster
, 21–22

Mao Zedong
, 58

Martin, J.
, 23

Mental distress
, 112

See also Cost of immigration

Methodological approach
, 27–38

Critical Sensemaking
, 32–38

overview
, 27–28

poststructuralist perspective
, 28–31

Micro-identity
, 23

Mills, A. J.
, 24, 37, 72, 85, 90, 100, 126

Morgan, G.
, 11

Multi-ethnic service organizations
, 73–79

being understaffed
, 74

funding
, 74, 79–82

government agenda
, 120

immigration policy and
, 75

low on resources
, 74

Murgatroyd, S. J.
, 24, 72, 85, 126

Narratives of integration
, 83–85

Networking, for integration
, 85–86

Ng, Roxana
, 74

Nkomo, S.
, 126

Ong, P.
, 4, 91

Organizational rules
, 36–37

funding requirements and
, 79–82

See also Critical Sensemaking; rules

Parenting
, 62–63

Phillips, N.
, 37, 40, 44, 48, 49

Pio, E.
, 23

Plausibility
, 35

Political sense of Chinese administration
, 58–60

Postmodernism
, 28

Poststructuralism
, 28–31

deconstruction
, 29

Foucauldian version
, 30

Lemert on
, 28

resistance in
, 9, 31, 100

techniques of
, 29–30

Poststructuralist literature on identity work
, 24–26

Power

acting on others
, 30

Critical Sensemaking and
, 126–127

disciplinary
, 30

Foucauldian discourse
, 5, 28–31

knowledge and
, 29

micro-politics of
, 31, 125

in modernity
, 5

See also Resistance

Prasad, A.
, 6–7

Pride, lowering, for integration
, 89–91

Rabinow, P.
, 31

Race/ethnicity

classification of groups
, 20

identity shift
, 22

Racial background, as selection criterion
, 55

Racioethnic
, 20

Racism
, 108, 130

Canadian workplace and
, 123

See also Workplace inequality

young children and
, 131

Reflections
, 130–131

Reflexivity
, 45–46

Research study

access
, 40–42

contribution of
, 8–10

data analysis
, 46–50

ethical considerations
, 45–46

informants
, 40–42, 120

overview
, 3–8

reflexivity
, 45–46

textual documents
, 44

translation and transcription
, 42–43

See also Methodological approach

Resistance

Foucault on
, 28–29, 31

importance of
, 23

micro-processes of
, 99–117

poststructuralism and
, 9, 31, 100

strength of
, 96

See also Power

Retrospective sense
, 34

Riot of 1967 in Hong Kong
, 58–59

Rose, N.
, 31

Royal Commission report on workplace inequality
, 36

Rules
, 71–73

cultural
, 88–89

dominant discourse
, 82–91

institutional
, 73–79

local qualifications
, 87

lowering pride
, 89–91

networking
, 85–86

organizational
, 79–82

speaking English
, 87–88

volunteering
, 86–87

Sample requirements
, 40

Selection criterion

racial background as
, 55

shift in
, 55

Self

deficient
, 78–79, 90, 92, 97, 103–104, 112–113

in-between state of
, 105–112

Self-referential identity
, 22

Sennett, R.
, 123

Sensemaking
, 5, 32

defined
, 11–12

paradoxical nature of
, 32

with poststructuralist ideas
, 32

projective
, 22

properties
, 22

Sheep, M. L.
, 23

Sino-British Agreement
, 59

Social constructionism
, 21–24

Social context, sensemaking
, 34

Social division
, 84

Socio-psychological properties
, 33–36

enactment
, 34

identity construction
, 33–34

ongoing projects
, 34

plausibility rather than accuracy
, 35

retrospection
, 34

salient cues
, 34–35

social context
, 34

Stigma
, 13, 30

Struggling in-between self
, 109–112

Suicide attempt
, 113

Syrian refugees, US immigration policy and
, 1

Technologies of the Self (Foucault)
, 32

Textual documents
, 44

Thomas, W. I.
, 4

Tiananmen Square Massacre
, 59, 62

Transcription
, 42–43

Translation
, 42–43

Treatment discrimination
, 18, 19

Tri-Council Policy Statement
, 45

Trump, Donald
, 1

Unger, R. M.
, 36, 52

United States

executive orders
, 1–2

immigration policy
, 1–2

Visible minority immigrants
, 3–4

access discrimination
, 19–21

first-generation
, 20–21

sensemaking
, 21

structural approaches to
, 19–21

Voluntary exploitation
, 96–97

Volunteering, for integration
, 86–87

W5 episode
, 56

Weick, K.
, 5, 11, 18, 21

Western supremacy
, 62–64

White employer, and integration
, 83

Wong, S. L.
, 58, 59

Work identity, in Hong Kong
, 64–69

Workplace culture, in Hong Kong
, 64–69

Workplace discrimination

access
, 19–21

treatment
, 18, 19

Workplace inequality
, 119–127

critical implications
, 122–125

hierarchal division
, 121–122

institutional guidelines and
, 120

sensemaking
, 119–122

Zanoni, P.
, 126

Znaniecki, F.
, 4