Post-school Employment Choices of East Asian Adolescent Migrants

Authors

  • Elsie S. Ho Univeristy of Waikato
  • Yunn-Ya Chen University of Waikato

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/lew.v0i0.966

Abstract

Many immigrant children from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea had general aspirations for the future which were similar to their parents' expectations. A survey of schools in Auckland in 1995 showed that a majority of them wished to complete university education, and aspired to managerial and professional occupations. However, they were more pessimistic than their parents about their employment prospects in this country. Only a small proportion of the young East Asian migrants wanted to work in New Zealand after they completed their education. A language barrier, racial discrimination and potential unemployment were cited as their main concerns.

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Author Biographies

Elsie S. Ho, Univeristy of Waikato

Research fellow in the Department of Geography

Yunn-Ya Chen, University of Waikato

Research assistant in the Department of Geography

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Published

1996-11-26

Issue

1996: Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand

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