Unit 3: Jobs or Good Jobs Flashcards
What is “deskilling”?
“De-skilling,” the phenomenon where experienced immigrants languish in dead-end jobs due to their language ability, accent or lack of Canadian work experience.
What criticisms of the unemployment rate does Don Pittis mention in his article?
The jobless figures are taken as a broad indicator of the health of the economy, but hidden within the figures is the less obvious measure of job quality. For example, working just a few hours a week takes you off the unemployment rolls. A dead-end job with low pay has just as much weight in the headline numbers as a cushy job with high pay. But job quality matters. There is a growing realization that the modern corporate model that prescribes increasingly lower wages and outsourcing is creating an unhealthy society.
What do many immigrants do in an attempt to avoid being “deskilled”?
‘Many immigrants change their name because their name becomes a barrier,’ says ‘Ding’ in a caption to this photo, which is part of a display at the Westmount Library in London, Ont. Not so for the immigrants who get stuck in those kinds of jobs, seldom getting the chance to
improve their language skills enough to move back into the jobs they’d originally trained to do. Overseas. “What happens is, the more they are in those jobs,” says Sethi, “the less there’s the likelihood of them going up the ladder.”
What is “micro-racism”?
Sethi says part of the problem is what she calls “micro-racism,” where people with foreign
names just don’t make the cut when applying for better jobs and employers fail to respect the intelligence of a potential employee with broken English.
What can be done to eliminate the practice of “micro-racism” and “deskilling” by business firms in Canada? Explain a policy that could be developed and passed by the Canadian Government.
To eliminate micro-racism and deskilling the government should provide monetary support for immigrants to upgrade their skills, degrees, or training to match Canadian standards. A policy to help could be the job guarantee to help secure well-paying jobs for immigrants.
