Negotiating entry to the professional labour market among Vietnamese skilled migrants in Australia: The impact of cultural distance

Thi Tuyet Tran; Nuttawuth (Wuth) Muenjohn; Alan Montague

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101977

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Negotiating entry to the professional labour market among Vietnamese skilled migrants in Australia: The impact of cultural distance

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Negotiating entry to the professional labour market among Vietnamese skilled migrants in Australia: The impact of cultural distance

Thi Tuyet Tran, Nuttawuth (Wuth) Muenjohn and Alan Montague

International journal of intercultural relations, Vol.100, 101977

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101977

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Abstract

Australia

Cultural factors

International HRM

Skilled migrants

Vietnam

Vietnamese skilled migrants

Human resources management

Organisational behaviour

This study investigates the employment transition among Vietnamese skilled migrants in Australia and examines the cultural factors that influence this transition. Employing a qualitative approach, we conducted fifty semi-structured interviews with Vietnamese skilled migrants who migrated to Australia within the last five years and twelve interviews with Australian recruiters to gain further insights into the barriers skilled migrants face. The findings highlighted the cultural challenges encountered by Vietnamese skilled migrants as they moved from Vietnam to Australia, two countries of great cultural distance. Without cultural adaptation support, most skilled migrants had to experience career setbacks before recognising and devising strategies to overcome these hurdles. This study emphasises the need for specialised human resource management (HRM) interventions and strategies that account for the cultural dimensions influencing employment outcomes for this international mobile workforce. Additionally, it calls for future research to expand beyond the examination of skilled migrants’ human and social capital and incorporate various contextual factors in investigating the employment journey of skilled migrants.

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Title: Negotiating entry to the professional labour market among Vietnamese skilled migrants in Australia: The impact of cultural distance
Authors/Creators: Thi Tuyet Tran (Author) - RMIT University
Nuttawuth (Wuth) Muenjohn (Author) - Murdoch University
Alan Montague (Author) - Monash University
Publication Details: International journal of intercultural relations, Vol.100, 101977
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
Number of pages: 12
Identifiers: 991005812246607891
Murdoch Affiliation: Murdoch Business School
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration; International collaboration
Citation topics: 6 Social Sciences; 6.86 Human Geography; 6.86.442 Migration Dynamics
Web Of Science research areas: Psychology, Social; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology
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