The COVID-19 Challenges and Opportunities for Immigrant Career Development

The COVID-19 Challenges and Opportunities for Immigrant Career Development

Lizette Solis-Cortes, Falu Rami
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4503-7.ch031
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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it's disproportionate impact on immigrants' careers and employment opportunities, and the dire need to address inequitable career development opportunities. COVID-19 has also highlighted the anti-immigrant sentiment and structural barriers that impact immigrant career experiences and outcomes. A second interrelated obstacle to immigrant career development paths are recent executive orders signed by Donald Trump in the United States against immigrants and refugees as well as global anti-immigrant and refugee policies such as Brexit and the Citizenship Amendment Act. Immigrant workers require advocacy, protection, and avenues to receive continued support during and post-pandemic. Resources for immigrant employers and employees including international resources, avenues for advocacy, and recommendations to service providers are discussed.
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Conceptual Framework

The guiding framework for this chapter is the collection of work that comprises perspectives on migration and access to resources in the adjustment experience of immigrants. This collection will be delineated into three frameworks: 1) social constructivism from an international psychology perspective (Chirkov, 2009), 2) integrative framework (Ager & Strang, 2008), and 3) integration frameworks (Ndofor-Tah et al. 2019). These frameworks provide a comprehensive overview of the adjustment experience of immigrants.

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