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Keywords: labour market integration, workplace discrimination, skilled immigration, credential devaluation
Rupa Banerjee is the Canada Research Chair in Economic Inclusion, Employment and Entrepreneurship of Canada's Immigrants and Associate Professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her primary research interest lies in the employment integration of new immigrants to Canada. She is particularly interested in the institutional barriers facing new immigrants in the Canadian labour market. In addition, she is interested in workplace diversity and ethno-racial discrimination, particularly as it applies to second-generation immigrants.
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Unveiling the Experiences of Racialized Immigrant Women in Cybersecurity - An Intersectional Qualitative Inquiry Skilled immigrant women’s integration in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professions is influenced by the prevalent racial and gendered conditions present in these fields. This study employs qualitative interviews to investigate barriers to equity, diversity, and inclusion faced by immigrant women professionals in the cybersecurity sector in Canada. Using an intersectional approach, this paper unveils how racial and gender discourses affect immigrant women’s experiences of exclusion in the workplace. Findings suggest that immigrant women face multiple barriers at the intersection of gender, race, and immigration status to enter the sector and advance in their careers. Drawing on the interview data, this paper demonstrates how workplaces reproduce multiple forms of inequality for racialized immigrant women. These inequalities arise through the division of positions, the perpetuation of stereotypes that hinder upward mobility, work schedules designed for the ideal men employees, and the penalties associated with cultural differences that specifically disadvantage immigrants.TRS2 1.8 Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-02-10 TRS2 1.8 A Novel Framework for Investigating Immigrant Experiences in Cybersecurity – Integrating Human Capital Theory with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion The cybersecurity sector has faced chronic talent shortages in recent years. One potential solution for addressing this issue is to leverage the expertise of immigrants. The literature on immigrants’ integration has predominantly used a human capital lens, which overlooks the structural issues of integration. Whereas equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in organizational literature is more focused on gender and race. There is a need to bridge these approaches in order to create a holistic conceptual framework to guide research into the integration challenges that skilled immigrants face in host countries. This research first identifies the key aspects of immigrant employment outcomes by reviewing literature on immigrant integration and EDI. Using the cybersecurity sector in Canada as a case study, this paper presents a conceptual framework for investigating employment integration of skilled immigrants, which can also be applied to other skilled sectors.TRS2 1.8 Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-02-10 TRS2 1.8 Temporary talent: Wage penalties among highly educated temporary workers in Canada Temporary employment (TE) arrangements have become increasingly common in Canada among both high- and low-skilled workers. In this study, we examine the prevalence and earnings effects of TE across education levels with a specific focus on highly educated workers. We also examine the earnings effects of TE across the earnings distribution. We find that higher levels of schooling are negatively associated with the probability of TE. However, the earnings discounts for temporary work are significant and increase in magnitude for individuals with higher levels of educational attainment. For highly educated workers at the top end of the earnings distribution, the discount associated with being in a temporary job is large enough to substantially reduce, although not entirely negate, the sizeable earnings premiums associated with higher levels of education.TRS2 1.1 Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2023-01-29 TRS2 1.1 Banerjee, R., Lam, L., & Lamb, D. (2023). Temporary talent: Wage penalties among highly educated temporary workers in Canada. Journal of Industrial Relations, 65(2), 185-210. Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2023-04-01 Gingrich, L.G., Banerjee, R., & Lightman, N. (2023). Differential economic inclusion: The conversion of symbolic capital to material capital in Canada's fractured labour market. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 55(2), 1-23. Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2023-07-17 Policies, potentials, and pitfalls: The impact of economic admission categories on recent immigrant earnings disparities Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2024-11-19 Banerjee, R. (2023). Introduction to the special issue - Canada's economic immigration policy: Opportunities and challenges for the road ahead. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 24(3), 585-597. Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2024-12-01 Fireside chat on IRCC Express Entry Programs IRCC is conducting a review of Express Entry’s federal economic immigration programs and the Comprehensive Ranking System, with a particular interest on how the Department can simplify and streamline the system, while prioritizing the factors that are most strongly correlated to positive economic outcomes. This review exercise stems from a commitment made in the 2023 Strategic Immigration Review to explore opportunities to simplify and streamline complex immigration pathways.
As part of this exercise, we are consulting key stakeholders with expertise in this area. Given your expertise, we would like to know if you would be interested in joining a ’closed door’ – Chatham House Rules – discussion with select Academics to better understand the current research and evidence on federal high skilled immigrant outcomes in Canada.
The objective of this session is to hear your thoughts on potential ways to enhance the federal high-skilled programs and the ranking system, to better select skilled workers that will contribute to Canada’s long-term prosperity and economic growth, including potential changes to selection factors. We would also like to hear your views on any particular barriers within the system that hinder the selection of top talent and of any innovative approaches or best practices you may be aware of from other countries. Toronto Metropolitan University, University of British Columbia Activity 2025-02-21 Zhuang, Z. C., Banerjee, R., Akbar, R., El Toukhy, M., Krywulak, J. (2025). Comparing housing experiences of international and domestic Students in Ontario and Alberta: Preliminary survey findings. Welcoming Campus, Inclusive Community: Building Housing In TRS3 4.4 Toronto Metropolitan University Activity 2025-06-16 TRS3 4.4
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