Making Critical Sense of Immigrant Experience

Chapter 1: Introduction and Outline 1.1 An Overview of Contemporary Immigrant Issues 1.2 Introduction to the Study 1.3 The Contribution of This Study 1.4 An Insider's Voice 1.5 Some Definitions 1.6 Outline of the Chapters

Chapter 2: Deconstructing Immigrant Identity Work 2.1 Overview of This Chapter 2.2 Theme One: Structural Approaches to Visible Minority Immigrants 2.3 Theme Two: Identity Construction through Social Constructionism 2.4 Theme Three: Poststructuralist Literature on Identity Work

Chapter 3: Methodological Approach 3.1 Overview of This Chapter 3.2 The Poststructuralist Perspective 3.3 Critical Sensemaking as a Conceptual Framework

Chapter 4: Research Design 4.1 My Access and the Informants 4.2 Translation and Transcription 4.3 Other Texts 4.4 Ethical Considerations and Reflexivity 4.5 Data Analysis

Chapter 5: Capturing the Discursive Elements of the Formative Context Retrospectively 5.1 Formative Context 5.2 The History of Chinese Immigrants in Canada and Canadian Immigration Policy 5.3 Immigrant Interview Accounts 5.4 The Political Sense of the Chinese Administration 5.5 The Lifestyle Discourse 5.6 In the Shadow of Whiteness: The Colonial Influence 5.7 Hong Kong's Workplace Culture and Work Identity

Chapter 6: Searching for Plausible Cues and Institutional Rules: The Politics of Normality 6.1 The Institutional Field and the Notion of a Deficient Self 6.2 Organizational Rules and Funding Requirements 6.3 The Dominant Discourse of Integration 6.4 A Silent Discourse of Exploitation

Chapter 7: Agency and Identity Labels: The Micro-Processes of Resistance 7.1 Identity Labels 7.2 The In-Between Self 7.3 The Cost of Immigration 7.4 Ignorance Is Strength: Inside the Boundaries of Acceptance

Chapter 8: Unpacking Workplace Inequality 8.1 Making Critical Sense of Workplace Inequality 8.2 Critical Implications 8.3 Contributions

Epilogue

References

Appendix A: Unstructured Interview Questions Appendix B: Summary of Informants