B8: Rebuilding Professional Lives: Immigrant Professionals Working in the Ontario Settlement Sector
This session will present and discuss the findings of a new research study on immigrant professionals working in the Ontario settlement sector. Led by the facilitator and conducted in collaboration with OCASI between 2009 and 2010, the study focused particularly on those professionals who are trained abroad in areas other than settlement or broader social service work and employed at OCASI member agencies. The session will have three learning outcomes as they relate to:
Factors, including lack of access to professions, which lead internationally trained (immigrant and refugee) professionals to seek employment in the settlement sector;
Reconstitution of individual professional lives, albeit in a new field; and
Professional development needs in the sector, particularly, conception of settlement work and sectoral capacity building. Questions and comments will be sought from participants both during and after the presentation.
Adnan Türegün is the Executive Director of the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies, and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, at Carleton University. His research focuses on Canadian settlement service delivery models, settlement sector development, and immigrant economic integration with particular emphasis on access to regulated professions and trades.
