Migrants: First work encounters

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Migrants: First work encounters

Migrants struggle to perform to expectation during their early years of settlement – a phenomenon usually ascribed to a combination of host country characteristics, migrant profile and the ‘acculturation’ process. The current study aimed to explore the role of migrants’ ‘first work encounters’ again...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	van Tonder, Chris, Soontiens, Werner
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier BV 2013
Subjects:	Work Encounters Acculturation Employment Migration Migrants
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7661

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