L ABOUR MARKET CHALLENGES OF B HUTANESE R EFUGEES IN C OQUITLAM, BC — A CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING Raj Khadka UBC (PhD Student)/ Finding Our Voices, ISS.

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L ABOUR MARKET CHALLENGES OF B HUTANESE R EFUGEES IN C OQUITLAM, BC — A CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING Raj Khadka UBC (PhD Student)/ Finding Our Voices, ISS of BC Presented At Canada and Refugee Resettlement: Research and Innovation for the 21st Century” National Conference, June , 2012 in Richmond, BC

B HUTANESE R EFUGEES Losthampa Bhutanese Of Nepali Origin Stripped of their citizenship rights and expelled from Bhutan in early 1990s Refugees camps in Nepal for about two decades Third country resettlement, Canada 2009 (5000)

E MPLOYMENT S TATUS & L.M. CHALLENGES Total Populatio n AdultsWork Force Employed Full Time Employed Part Time P. W. Disability Seniors Employment Status Data Source: Finding Out Voice, ISS of BC (2012,May) Challenges : All-too-familiar barriers Low Human Capital Low level of Language ability Lack of Canadian Experience& LM knowledge Few and New (weak social capital) Health :Physical and psychological Soft skills & transportation Mismatch between the economy of Source & receiving country

T HEORY OF HABITUS AND C APITAL FRAMEWORK OF P IERRE BOURDIEU Habitus and capitals (economic, social & social) Indigenous economy ( agriculture, Nonwage labor, reciprocity, labour relatioinships) LM in Canada: Capitalistic labour market (wage labour, human capital) Acquisition of new temporal habitus (rule of games/LM) and economic logic of Canadian labour Market LM Outcome= Volume +Composition +Trajectory Conclusion