Luciara Nardon
Biographic Data
| ID | 235644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luciara Nardon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luciara |
| FAMILY NAME | Nardon |
| SIGNATURE | NARDON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8935-198X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Interviewing Beyond Words: Multimodal Approaches for Enhancing Sensemaking in Qualitative Research
Towards inclusion through polyculturalism: A critical review of cultural hybridity
High levels of global migration have increased the complexity of the relationship between individuals and cultures. Multiculturalism has emerged as a prominent ideology to support inclusion by calling for the recognition and celebration of cultural differences and inviting cultural groups to maintain their distinctive cultural identities. Assuming cultural influences to be constant, general, categorical, and steady, the multicultural ideology may…
Reflective Interviews in Virtual Reality: From Intervention to Intravention
Researchers increasingly acknowledge the importance of material and spatial elements in knowledge generation. Interview research incorporating spatial and material elements is often limited to what is available near the interview location. Virtual reality (VR) technology, with its unique combination of affordances such as immersion, visualization, and interaction, allows for the creation of virtual environments that are difficult to access or non…
Mentoring immigrant job seekers: A Socialization Perspective
Doubly precarious immigrant academics: Professional identities and work integration of a highly skilled precariat in Canadian higher education
Purpose Educational institutions are investing heavily in the internationalization of their campuses to attract global talent. Yet, highly skilled immigrants face persistent labor market challenges. We investigate how immigrant academics experience and mitigate their double precarity (migrant and academic) as they seek employment in higher education in Canada. Design/methodology/approach We take a phenomenological approach and draw on reflective …
AI-Image Generation in Research Interviews: Opportunities and Challenges
Drawing on our experience developing a visual polyvocal narrative of the immigration system in Canada and Brazil, we explore the role of artificial intelligence (AI) image generation as a tool for supporting interview participants in articulating their experiences. We found that the AI image generation process supported participants' ability to reflect and express their experiences. However, there were several challenges due to technological limi…
In choppy waters with a critical friend: The benefits of intimate reflexive encounters in participatory action research
We explore the benefits of intimate reflexive encounters with a 'critical friend' in the context of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project. We conceptualize these encounters as an evolving relationship between a kayaker who supports the swim (research) and the swimmer (researcher). Methodologically, we adopt a form of co-constructed autoethnography and contribute to ongoing collective approaches to reflexivity and explorations in co-writin…
Pre-Employment Mentoring Programs and Immigrant Labor Market Integration
Management Across Cultures: Challenges, Strategies, and Skills
Refugee Students' Transition from Higher Education to Employment: Setting a Research Agenda
Refugee youth experience lots of challenges enrolling into, proceeding to, and transitioning from higher education to employment. Research on the youth’s transition from higher education to employment is limited and is scattered around several fields. This paper offers a systematic overview of the current knowledge on the important topic pertaining on post-university experiences of refugee youth. The purpose of the literature review is to reveal …
A transnational lens into international student experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic
We analyse the experiences of international students living in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of transnationalism that understands mobility as broadly uninterrupted, continuing and taken-for-granted, and international student migration (ISM) literature. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, people had to contend with sudden border closures and stringent restrictions on all forms of travel. International students are regar…
Making Sense of Immigrant Work Integration: An Organizing Framework
This is an open access book. It explores the issue of immigrant work integration, focusing particularly on the role of organizational support.
Migrant workers in precarious employment
Purpose Various forms of precarious employment create barriers to the integration and inclusion of migrant workers in receiving countries. The purpose of this paper is to review extant research in employment relations and management to identify key factors that contribute to migrant workers' precarious employment and highlight potential avenues for future research. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a narrative literature review dr…
Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada
Purpose Despite immigrant-receiving countries' need for skilled professionals to meet labour demands, research suggests that many skilled migrants undergo deskilling, downward career mobility, underemployment, unemployment and talent waste, finding themselves in low-skilled occupations that are not commensurate to their education and experience. Skilled immigrant women face additional gendered disadvantages, including a disproportionate domestic …
Identity work in refugee workforce integration: The role of newcomer support organizations
How does professional employment support provided by newcomer support organizations (NSOs) influence highly-skilled refugees’ professional identities and workforce integration? To answer this question, we draw on interviews with 25 managers and staff of NSOs in Canada and 11 recently arrived, highly-skilled refugees. We contribute to the literature on refugee workforce integration by shedding light on the dynamic process of employment support in …
Reflective Interviewing-Increasing Social Impact through Research
Scholars are increasingly calling for research that 'makes a difference' through theoretical, practical, societal, and educational impacts. Recognizing that academic research lags behind practitioners' issues and that most academic writing is inaccessible to those who need the knowledge, some scholars are calling for embedding social impact in the research process itself. We argue that participant reflection can increase social impact by changing…
Sensemaking Through Metaphors: The Role of Imaginative Metaphor Elicitation in Constructing New Understandings
Drawing on in-depth interviews with exchange and international students during the COVID-19 pandemic, we elaborate on the role of Imaginative Metaphor Elicitation (IME) to generate knowledge about participants' experiences while helping them make sense of and cope with a difficult situation. Imaginative metaphors allow participants to explore feelings, assumptions, and behaviors in non-threatening ways and facilitate introspection and self-awaren…
Unveiling the Canvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration
Increasing levels of displacement and the need to integrate refugees in the workforce pose new challenges to organizations and societies. Extant research on refugee employment and workforce integration currently resides across various disconnected disciplines, posing a significant challenge for management scholars to contribute to timely and relevant solutions. In this paper, we endeavour to address this challenge by reviewing and synthesizing mu…
Becoming Canadian: Immigrant narratives of professional attainment
Management Across Cultures: Developing Global Competencies
Management Across Cultures
Working in a Multicultural World: A Guide to Developing Intercultural Competence
Making sense of foreign context: Skilled migrant’s perceptions of contextual barriers and career options
This study amplifies understanding of the occupational marginalization of skilled migrants by elaborating the role of cognition in skilled migrants’ perception of contextual barriers and career options. Our qualitative analysis of interviews with 13 Filipino engineers who migrated to Canada revealed that migrants’ perceptions are influenced by their mobility frames. We identified three cognitive mobility frames: migrant, migrant professional, and…
Making sense of a foreign culture through technology: Triggers, mechanisms, and introspective focus in newcomers’ blogs
Expatriate adjustment in the digital age: The co-creation of online social support resources through blogging
Identity work in refugee workforce integration: The role of newcomer support organizations
How does professional employment support provided by newcomer support organizations (NSOs) influence highly-skilled refugees’ professional identities and workforce integration? To answer this question, we draw on interviews with 25 managers and staff of NSOs in Canada and 11 recently arrived, highly-skilled refugees. We contribute to the literature on refugee workforce integration by shedding light on the dynamic process of employment support in …
Reflective Interviewing-Increasing Social Impact through Research
Scholars are increasingly calling for research that 'makes a difference' through theoretical, practical, societal, and educational impacts. Recognizing that academic research lags behind practitioners' issues and that most academic writing is inaccessible to those who need the knowledge, some scholars are calling for embedding social impact in the research process itself. We argue that participant reflection can increase social impact by changing…
A transnational lens into international student experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic
We analyse the experiences of international students living in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of transnationalism that understands mobility as broadly uninterrupted, continuing and taken-for-granted, and international student migration (ISM) literature. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, people had to contend with sudden border closures and stringent restrictions on all forms of travel. International students are regar…
Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada
Purpose Despite immigrant-receiving countries' need for skilled professionals to meet labour demands, research suggests that many skilled migrants undergo deskilling, downward career mobility, underemployment, unemployment and talent waste, finding themselves in low-skilled occupations that are not commensurate to their education and experience. Skilled immigrant women face additional gendered disadvantages, including a disproportionate domestic …
Expatriate adjustment in the digital age: The co-creation of online social support resources through blogging
Migrant workers in precarious employment
Purpose Various forms of precarious employment create barriers to the integration and inclusion of migrant workers in receiving countries. The purpose of this paper is to review extant research in employment relations and management to identify key factors that contribute to migrant workers' precarious employment and highlight potential avenues for future research. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a narrative literature review dr…
Sensemaking Through Metaphors: The Role of Imaginative Metaphor Elicitation in Constructing New Understandings
Drawing on in-depth interviews with exchange and international students during the COVID-19 pandemic, we elaborate on the role of Imaginative Metaphor Elicitation (IME) to generate knowledge about participants' experiences while helping them make sense of and cope with a difficult situation. Imaginative metaphors allow participants to explore feelings, assumptions, and behaviors in non-threatening ways and facilitate introspection and self-awaren…
Making sense of foreign context: Skilled migrant’s perceptions of contextual barriers and career options
This study amplifies understanding of the occupational marginalization of skilled migrants by elaborating the role of cognition in skilled migrants’ perception of contextual barriers and career options. Our qualitative analysis of interviews with 13 Filipino engineers who migrated to Canada revealed that migrants’ perceptions are influenced by their mobility frames. We identified three cognitive mobility frames: migrant, migrant professional, and…
AI-Image Generation in Research Interviews: Opportunities and Challenges
Drawing on our experience developing a visual polyvocal narrative of the immigration system in Canada and Brazil, we explore the role of artificial intelligence (AI) image generation as a tool for supporting interview participants in articulating their experiences. We found that the AI image generation process supported participants' ability to reflect and express their experiences. However, there were several challenges due to technological limi…
Pre-Employment Mentoring Programs and Immigrant Labor Market Integration
Doubly precarious immigrant academics: Professional identities and work integration of a highly skilled precariat in Canadian higher education
Purpose Educational institutions are investing heavily in the internationalization of their campuses to attract global talent. Yet, highly skilled immigrants face persistent labor market challenges. We investigate how immigrant academics experience and mitigate their double precarity (migrant and academic) as they seek employment in higher education in Canada. Design/methodology/approach We take a phenomenological approach and draw on reflective …
Refugee Students' Transition from Higher Education to Employment: Setting a Research Agenda
Refugee youth experience lots of challenges enrolling into, proceeding to, and transitioning from higher education to employment. Research on the youth’s transition from higher education to employment is limited and is scattered around several fields. This paper offers a systematic overview of the current knowledge on the important topic pertaining on post-university experiences of refugee youth. The purpose of the literature review is to reveal …
Making sense of a foreign culture through technology: Triggers, mechanisms, and introspective focus in newcomers’ blogs
The culture theory jungle: Divergence and convergence in models of national culture
On both a conceptual and empirical level, serious research on cultural differences in organization and management has been simultaneously facilitated and inhibited by the existence of multiple and often conflicting models of national culture. These models offer useful templates for comparing management processes, HRM policies, and business strategies across national borders. Some models have gone a step further and offered measures or numerical i…
Cambridge Handbook of Culture, Organizations, and Work
It is now widely recognized that countries around the world are becoming increasingly interconnected, and that both public and private organizations are of necessity becoming increasingly global. As political, legal, and economic barriers recede in this environment, cultural barriers emerge as a principal challenge to organizational survival and success. It is not yet clear whether these global realities will cause cultures to converge, harmonize…
Management across Cultures: Challenges and Strategies
Management practices and processes frequently differ across national and regional boundaries. What may be acceptable managerial behaviour in one culture may be counterproductive or even unacceptable in another. As managers increasingly find themselves working across cultures, the need to understand these differences has become increasingly important. This book examines why these differences exist and how global managers can develop strategies and…
Accounting for Culture in the Development of Global Leaders
Understanding why organizations fail or succeed typically requires, among other things, an assessment of leadership behaviors and contexts. Some experts, mostly those with a stronger psychological inclination, emphasize the figure of those in charge, their personality traits and habits, their charisma and style, their personal or task orientations, and so on. It is then the behavior displayed by specific individuals, particularly those at the top…
Expatriate adjustment in the digital age: The co-creation of online social support resources through blogging
Making sense of foreign context: Skilled migrant’s perceptions of contextual barriers and career options
This study amplifies understanding of the occupational marginalization of skilled migrants by elaborating the role of cognition in skilled migrants’ perception of contextual barriers and career options. Our qualitative analysis of interviews with 13 Filipino engineers who migrated to Canada revealed that migrants’ perceptions are influenced by their mobility frames. We identified three cognitive mobility frames: migrant, migrant professional, and…
Making sense of a foreign culture through technology: Triggers, mechanisms, and introspective focus in newcomers’ blogs
Management Across Cultures: Developing Global Competencies
Management Across Cultures
Working in a Multicultural World: A Guide to Developing Intercultural Competence
Unveiling the Canvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration
Increasing levels of displacement and the need to integrate refugees in the workforce pose new challenges to organizations and societies. Extant research on refugee employment and workforce integration currently resides across various disconnected disciplines, posing a significant challenge for management scholars to contribute to timely and relevant solutions. In this paper, we endeavour to address this challenge by reviewing and synthesizing mu…
Becoming Canadian: Immigrant narratives of professional attainment
Identity work in refugee workforce integration: The role of newcomer support organizations
How does professional employment support provided by newcomer support organizations (NSOs) influence highly-skilled refugees’ professional identities and workforce integration? To answer this question, we draw on interviews with 25 managers and staff of NSOs in Canada and 11 recently arrived, highly-skilled refugees. We contribute to the literature on refugee workforce integration by shedding light on the dynamic process of employment support in …
Reflective Interviewing-Increasing Social Impact through Research
Scholars are increasingly calling for research that 'makes a difference' through theoretical, practical, societal, and educational impacts. Recognizing that academic research lags behind practitioners' issues and that most academic writing is inaccessible to those who need the knowledge, some scholars are calling for embedding social impact in the research process itself. We argue that participant reflection can increase social impact by changing…
Sensemaking Through Metaphors: The Role of Imaginative Metaphor Elicitation in Constructing New Understandings
Drawing on in-depth interviews with exchange and international students during the COVID-19 pandemic, we elaborate on the role of Imaginative Metaphor Elicitation (IME) to generate knowledge about participants' experiences while helping them make sense of and cope with a difficult situation. Imaginative metaphors allow participants to explore feelings, assumptions, and behaviors in non-threatening ways and facilitate introspection and self-awaren…
Making Sense of Immigrant Work Integration: An Organizing Framework
This is an open access book. It explores the issue of immigrant work integration, focusing particularly on the role of organizational support.
Migrant workers in precarious employment
Purpose Various forms of precarious employment create barriers to the integration and inclusion of migrant workers in receiving countries. The purpose of this paper is to review extant research in employment relations and management to identify key factors that contribute to migrant workers' precarious employment and highlight potential avenues for future research. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a narrative literature review dr…
Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada
Purpose Despite immigrant-receiving countries' need for skilled professionals to meet labour demands, research suggests that many skilled migrants undergo deskilling, downward career mobility, underemployment, unemployment and talent waste, finding themselves in low-skilled occupations that are not commensurate to their education and experience. Skilled immigrant women face additional gendered disadvantages, including a disproportionate domestic …
Management Across Cultures: Challenges, Strategies, and Skills
Refugee Students' Transition from Higher Education to Employment: Setting a Research Agenda
Refugee youth experience lots of challenges enrolling into, proceeding to, and transitioning from higher education to employment. Research on the youth’s transition from higher education to employment is limited and is scattered around several fields. This paper offers a systematic overview of the current knowledge on the important topic pertaining on post-university experiences of refugee youth. The purpose of the literature review is to reveal …
A transnational lens into international student experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic
We analyse the experiences of international students living in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of transnationalism that understands mobility as broadly uninterrupted, continuing and taken-for-granted, and international student migration (ISM) literature. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, people had to contend with sudden border closures and stringent restrictions on all forms of travel. International students are regar…
In choppy waters with a critical friend: The benefits of intimate reflexive encounters in participatory action research
We explore the benefits of intimate reflexive encounters with a 'critical friend' in the context of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project. We conceptualize these encounters as an evolving relationship between a kayaker who supports the swim (research) and the swimmer (researcher). Methodologically, we adopt a form of co-constructed autoethnography and contribute to ongoing collective approaches to reflexivity and explorations in co-writin…
Pre-Employment Mentoring Programs and Immigrant Labor Market Integration
Towards inclusion through polyculturalism: A critical review of cultural hybridity
High levels of global migration have increased the complexity of the relationship between individuals and cultures. Multiculturalism has emerged as a prominent ideology to support inclusion by calling for the recognition and celebration of cultural differences and inviting cultural groups to maintain their distinctive cultural identities. Assuming cultural influences to be constant, general, categorical, and steady, the multicultural ideology may…
Reflective Interviews in Virtual Reality: From Intervention to Intravention
Researchers increasingly acknowledge the importance of material and spatial elements in knowledge generation. Interview research incorporating spatial and material elements is often limited to what is available near the interview location. Virtual reality (VR) technology, with its unique combination of affordances such as immersion, visualization, and interaction, allows for the creation of virtual environments that are difficult to access or non…
Sociology (22 works) · Political science (20 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (12 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social science (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Global and Cross-Cultural Management (6 works)