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Labour market challenges of Bhutanese Refugees in Coquitlam, BC — A conceptual understanding

Presented A t Canada and Refugee Resettlement: Research and Innovation for the 21st Century” National Conference, June 20 - 22, 2012 in Richmond, BC. Labour market challenges of Bhutanese Refugees in Coquitlam, BC — A conceptual understanding. Raj Khadka UBC (PhD Student)/

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Labour market challenges of Bhutanese Refugees in Coquitlam, BC — A conceptual understanding

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  1. Presented At Canada and Refugee Resettlement: Research and Innovation for the 21st Century” National Conference, June 20 - 22, 2012 in Richmond, BC Labour market challenges of Bhutanese Refugees in Coquitlam, BC — A conceptual understanding Raj Khadka UBC (PhD Student)/ Finding Our Voices, ISS of BC

  2. Bhutanese Refugees • Losthampa Bhutanese Of Nepali Origin • Stripped of their citizenship rights and expelled from Bhutan in early 1990s • Refugees camps in Nepal for about two decades • Third country resettlement, Canada 2009 (5000)

  3. Employment Status & L.M. challenges • Employment Status Data Source: Finding Out Voice, ISS of BC (2012,May) • Challenges : All-too-familiar barriers • Low Human Capital • Low level of Language ability • Lack of Canadian Experience& LM knowledge • Few and New (weak social capital) • Health :Physical and psychological • Soft skills & transportation • Mismatch between the economy of Source & receiving country

  4. Theory of habitus and Capital framework of Pierre bourdieu • Habitus and capitals (economic, social & social) • Indigenous economy ( agriculture, Nonwage labor, reciprocity, labourrelatioinships) • LM in Canada: Capitalistic labour market (wage labour, human capital) • Acquisition of new temporal habitus (rule of games/LM) and economic logic of Canadian labour Market • LM Outcome= Volume +Composition +Trajectory Conclusion

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