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Many governments seek to attract skilled migrants into the top
occupational groups and now have significant groups of
overseas-born professionals in their workforces. Such groups are
expected to contribute significantly to the economic and social
development of their new countries. There has been sustained debate
between those taking the view that skilled migrants are integrated
without much difficulty and those concerned that a mismatch between
aspirational government policies and actual organisational practice
generates discontent and frustration among skilled immigrants. If
the latter is correct, it seems likely that host societies will not
benefit from the injection of human capital in terms of creativity
and innovation. In Skilled Migration, Expectation and Reality the
authors report the findings of their research into the
acculturation and integration issues confronting professional
Chinese immigrants in the Australian labour market. Australia
serves as a good example of the phenomenon under examination, being
a country where Chinese are one of the largest non-English speaking
ethnic groups and where they are strongly concentrated in the top
occupational groups. The authors' rigorous quantitative and
qualitative study is one of the first systematic examinations of
acculturation to focus specifically on the workplace. It reveals
fascinating insights regarding the strategies that professional
immigrants are compelled to adopt because they are unable to find
appropriate channels through which to integrate and assimilate into
the host society.
This book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Pacific Rim
Statistical Conference for Production Engineering: Production
Engineering, Big Data and Statistics, which took place at Seoul
National University in Seoul, Korea in December, 2016. The papers
included discuss a wide range of statistical challenges, methods
and applications for big data in production engineering, and
introduce recent advances in relevant statistical methods.
This book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Pacific Rim
Statistical Conference for Production Engineering: Production
Engineering, Big Data and Statistics, which took place at Seoul
National University in Seoul, Korea in December, 2016. The papers
included discuss a wide range of statistical challenges, methods
and applications for big data in production engineering, and
introduce recent advances in relevant statistical methods.
This book addresses recent developments in medical and language
education. In both fields, there have been methodological shifts
towards 'task-based' and 'problem-based learning'. In addition,
both fields have broadened their focus on clinical expertise and
linguistic skills to address issues of cultural competence. English
in Medical Education responds to these changes by re-imagining the
language classroom in medical settings as an arena for the
exploration of values and professional identity. The chapters cover
topics such as the nature of cultural competence; how to understand
spoken discourse in a range of medical settings; the use of tasks
and problems in language education for medics; the development of
critical skills and the use of literature and visual media in
language education for doctors. It will interest everyone teaching
English for Medical Purposes.
Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western
readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women
have traditionally been portrayed on stage by presenting original
translations of six plays from the fourteenth to twentieth
centuries. Framed with a comprehensive introduction to the Chinese
theatre and its representation of women, each play is preceded by
an interpretative summary of the plot, and an analysis of each
play's theme and significance. The selections in this volume
feature women representing the most popular female archetypes in
Chinese literature: the paragon of virtue, the stoic sufferer, the
faithful wife, the femme fatal, and others. Appealing to both
scholars and general enthusiasts of theatre, literature, and
women's studies, this book reveals how the cultural constructs of
Chinese women are represented in dramatic literature, and how the
theatre, in turn, shapes this representation into the cultural
perception of women.
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