The Colour of Skill: Contesting a Racialised Regime of Skill from the Experience of Recent Immigrants in Canada

Autor/in	Guo, Shibao
Titel	The Colour of Skill: Contesting a Racialised Regime of Skill from the Experience of Recent Immigrants in Canada
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 37 (2015) 3, S.236-250 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
DOI	10.1080/0158037X.2015.1067766
Schlagwörter	Labor Market; Work Environment; Immigrants; Skilled Workers; Race; Critical Theory; Social Class; Gender Differences; Foreign Countries; Ethnicity; Politics; Employment Qualifications; Human Capital; Selection Criteria; Work Experience; Barriers; Professional Personnel; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitsmilieu; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Facharbeiter; Rasse; Abstammung; Kritische Theorie; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland; Ethnizität; Politik; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Humankapital; Selection criterion; Auslesekriterium; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Personalbestand; Kanada
Abstract	This article contests a racialised skills regime in Canada. Canadian studies of the labour market transitions of skilled immigrants are analysed through the lens of critical race theory. The analysis shows that knowledge and skills of recent immigrants in Canada are racialised and materialised on the basis of ethnic and national origins. Skin colour is a central basis of social marking. Through processes of de-skilling and re-skilling, a racialised regime of skill has become a social engineering project for manufacturing normative, white, docile corporate subjects who conform to Canadian norms and workplace cultures. The study demonstrates that skill is not colour-blind; it is coloured. Skill is not only gendered and classed, but it is also racialised. The findings move us beyond the traditional colour-blind, gender- and class-based analyses of skill that fail to account for racial differences in the social construction of skill. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01