Immigrant Workers and Meanings of Work ─ Communicating Life and Career Transitions

This volume brings together 11 essays that describe the stories of immigrants regarding work and its meaning. Communication and other researchers from the US and Finland address the impact of national culture on the meaning of work; the work experiences of immigrants in knowledge jobs in Finland and the importance of socialization practices designed for them; the concept of providing in Christian Lebanese American communities; the concept of career inheritance and displacement; work and the cultural values of undocumented Mexican immigrants; the impact of messages, or consejos, on meanings of work in Mexican immigrant students; the work of immigrant intellectuals from India; how language barriers, micro-aggressions based on foreign accents, and tokenism affect the meanings of work of immigrant women faculty members; career despair and stagnation and success and resilience among immigrant women engineers; the experience of an international teaching assistant; and a Latvian American immigrant in Sweden. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Suchitra Shenoy-Packer (PhD, Purdue University) is an independent research scholar and management consultant. She is the author of India’s Working Women and Career Discourses: Society, Socialization, and Agency, and co-author of Intercultural Communication in Everyday Life. Her peer-reviewed work has been published in Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and the Journal of Communication and Religion, among others.
Elena Gabor (PhD, Purdue University) is an associate professor at Bradley University. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal (Highly Commended Paper Award, 2013), the Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research, and Intercultural Communication Studies, among others.