Open AccessPost-school Employment Choices of East Asian Adolescent Migrants
Author(s) -
Elsie Ho,
Yunn-Ya Chen
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
labour, employment and work in new zealand
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2463-2600
DOI - 10.26686/lew.v0i0.966
Subject(s) - immigration , pessimism , unemployment , east asia , work (physics) , demographic economics , political science , youth unemployment , economic growth , gender studies , sociology , psychology , china , economics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , engineering , epistemology , law
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.