abstract: 'Through the lens of culture intersecting with gender, race and class,

  this monograph looks at the reconfiguration of skilled worker identity

  of 20 Philippines-born women who have immigrated to Australia. Through

  interviews and analyses of their lived experiences, it attempts to

  comprehend the complexity of their unemployment, from their encounter

  with the labor market, to their attempts in breaking into the workforce.

  It contextualizes the institutional disadvantages and discrimination

  befalling migrant women of non-English speaking background, as well as

  housework and mothering responsibilities they continue to resist at

  home. The complex interaction of the women''s higher education, English

  language proficiency, their sense of purpose and other personal

  resources-all assisted in reframing their subordinated identity, and

  recapturing their careers. The women risked taking jobs lower than their

  qualifications, took further studies, went through rigorous

  accreditation, and acquired local experience, as stepping stones to

  regain their professions and subsequently their middle-class status.

  Their journey, however, is not without severe difficulties. By using

  agency and privilege, this monograph argues that the women epitomized

  the classical modernist ideology of the self within a capitalist system.

  They were aware of structural disadvantages and discriminatory

  practices, but they found ways of working within these limitations,

  which results to masking the hardships they endured. The study debunks

  the effectiveness of the notion that individual''s capacity over the

  state ``to enterprise themselves{''''} is a success strategy.'
affiliation: 'Limpangog, CP (Corresponding Author), RMIT Univ, Ctr Global Res, Melbourne,
  Vic, Australia.

  Limpangog, Cirila P., RMIT Univ, Ctr Global Res, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.'
author: Limpangog, Cirila P.
author-email: cirila.limpangog@rmit.edu.au
author_list:
- family: Limpangog
  given: Cirila P.
da: '2023-09-28'
files: []
issn: 2094-6937
journal: KRITIKA KULTURA
keywords: 'career reconstitution; citizenship rights; Filipina immigrants;

  intersectionality; occupational mobility; skilled migration'
keywords-plus: 'INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; IMMIGRANT WOMEN; GENDER; MIGRANTS; RACE;

  DETERMINANTS; UNEMPLOYMENT; PHILIPPINES; EMPLOYMENT; QUESTION'
language: English
month: FEB
number: '26'
number-of-cited-references: '147'
pages: 523-607
papis_id: ca33a1798868ccd16b7be1a195cf7054
ref: Limpangog2016resumingskilled
times-cited: '0'
title: 'RESUMING THE ``SKILLED WORKER″ IDENTITY: The Filipinas'' Strategies in Labor
  Market Participation in Melbourne, Australia'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000377694100027
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '18'
web-of-science-categories: Language \& Linguistics; Literature
year: '2016'