Guo
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 27517 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Guo |
| SOBRENOME | Guo |
| ASSINATURA | GUO |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6551-5468 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 262 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Citizenship from below’
From voice to action
Learning through networks
Combating racism with critical race theory
Constructing workplace subjectivity
This article explores the workplace learning of immigrant settlement workers (ISWs) at immigrant service agencies (ISAs) in Canada. Adopting a combination of governmentality and workplace subjectivity as its theoretical framework and institutional ethnography as its methodology, the study examines three forms of workplace subjectivity. First, constructive subjectivity is formed by incorporating racialized immigrants’ prior professional and lingui…
Chinese Diasporas in Canada
Affordable Rental Housing for the Urban Seasonal Migrants in India
Bhutan is an inland country in the Himalayan region of South-central Asia, and is known for its unique culture and vernacular architecture.Vernacular architecture of Bhutan reflects its rich cultural heritage, religious beliefs, and historical significance and the natural setting.This paper examines the unique attributes of vernacular architecture of Bhutan and how the Government of Bhutan has gainfully utilized it for promoting the unique identi…
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Brain Drain, Brain Gain and Brain Circulation
Four decades ago, in the 1980s, network analysis did not anticipate the growing importance of transnational and diasporic communities “embedded” in more than one country. The integrating theoretical framework of transnational social mobilities is adopted for this article on Chinese talent mobility in the diaspora with a focus on the mobilities between China and countries in the OECD . By examining macro migration data within the OECD , we analyze…
The making of ideal immigrant settlement workers
Underpinned by neoliberal rationalities, the contractual relationship between government funders and immigrant-serving organisations (ISOs) has led these agencies to promote neoliberal values of competition in the business market, prioritising quantity over quality in their services in order to secure government funding. Informed by Foucault's concept of governmentality as its theoretical framework and institutional ethnography (IE) as its method…
Internationalization of Chinese Higher Education
Internationalization has become a strategic policy priority for many Chinese higher education in the process of becoming world-class universities. However, there is little research focusing on students’ experiences of internationalization at home. This research investigates how Chinese undergraduates interpreted and experienced internationalization at a prestigious university in China. Data for the study were collected through policy document ana…
Researching inequality and lifelong education from 1982 to 2020
This article explores the International Journal of Lifelong Education archives in the period 1982–2020. We analyse how the Journal engages with the issue of inequality. This is accomplished by systematically identifying relevant articles within the archives, and reviewing these whilst taking account of the societal, cultural and political or economic contexts in which they were written. Most articles identified for review focused on specific disa…
Reimagining Chinese diasporas in a transnational world
This introduction article examines the changing nature of the Chinese diasporas in a transnational world and its concomitant implications for Chinese diasporas studies internationally. With a shifting paradigm of transnationalism and transnational migration, new patterns of Chinese diasporas can be characterised by unprecedented hypermobility, hyperdiversity, and hyperconnectivity. Such characterisations depict the global dispersal of overseas Ch…
Beyond multiculturalism
Canada was the first country in the world to establish multiculturalism as its official policy for the governance of diversity. Canadian multiculturalism has gained much popularity in political and public discourses in the past 50 years, and it has also received no less criticism as to its effectiveness in addressing issues of racism. There have also been ambiguities over the meaning and intention of multiculturalism, leading to divergent underst…
Transnational migration, refugee studies and lifelong learning
Conceptualising a holistic model of transcultural lifelong learning
Exploring initial school integration among Syrian refugee children
This paper explores the initial integration experiences of Syrian refugee children in schools in Canada. We conducted two focus groups with twelve Syrian refugee parents and three focus groups with eighteen children. Our research shows that Syrian refugee children experienced emotional barriers while struggling with their identity as Syrian “refugees.” Their low English proficiency, English only practice in classrooms and teachers’ low expectatio…
Navigating transition to work
Conceptualizing virtual transnational diaspora
Transnational migration brings to the fore the various social and professional connections migrants maintain with their home and sojourn countries. Drawing on a qualitative case study with 12 Chinese transnational academics in the field of the social sciences and humanities in three higher education institutions in Beijing, China, this article explores their transnational ways of being and belonging. Informed by the theoretical lens of transnatio…
Mapping Racial and Ethnic Studies in Canada
Mapping Racial and Ethnic Studies in Canada:Retrospective and Prospective Views of Canadian Ethnic Studies Chairs James Frideres (bio), Shibao Guo (bio), Abdie Kazemipur (bio), Morton Weinfeld (bio), and Lloyd Wong (bio) Introduction (Shibao Guo and Lloyd Wong) Canada has always been diverse with respect to 'race' and ethnicity. In 1901, only three decades after Confederation, the English and French comprised 57% and 31% of the Canadian populatio…
Theorising decolonisation in the context of lifelong learning and transnational migration
In the age of transnational migration, the practices and policies of lifelong learning in many immigrant-receiving countries continue to be impacted by the cultural and discursive politics of colonial legacies. Drawing on a wide range of anti-colonial and anti-racist scholarship, we argue for an approach to lifelong learning that aims to decolonise the ideological underpinnings of colonial relations of rule, especially in terms of its racialised …
Decolonising lifelong learning in the age of transnational migration
Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada
Canada’s history, since its birth as a nation one hundred and fifty years ago, is one of immigration, nation-building, and contested racial and ethnic relations. In Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada: Retrospects and Prospects scholars provide a wide-ranging overview of this history with a core theme being one of enduring racial and ethnic conflict and inequality. The volume is organized around four themes where in each…
Connecting Transculturalism with Transformative Learning
The impact of transnational migration with activities across transnational borders has reconfigured multiple social and public identities calling for shifting to transculturalism as a theoretical framework in understanding the changing nature of adult education. Transculturalism becomes a mode of being and learning where humans interact with each other in a culturally diverse environment. Integrating different identities and connecting the global…
Canadian Ethnic Studies in the Changing Context of Immigration
Canadian Ethnic Studies in the Changing Context of Immigration: Looking Back, Looking Forward Loyd Wong and Shibao Guo The year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études Ethniques au Canada! The journal started fifty years ago as an interdisciplinary publication devoted to the study of ethnicity, immigration, inter-group relations, and the history and cultural life of ethnic groups in Canada. As we celebrate this importa…
Economic Integration of Recent Chinese Immigrants in Canada's Second-Tier Cities
Un examen de l'intégration économique des immigrés chinois à Calgary et à Edmonton révèle dans cette étude que ceux qui sont arrivés récemment se heurtent à des obstacles sur plusieurs fronts, en particulier en ce qui concerne la langue et l'emploi. De plus, suite à leur immigration au Canada, ils ont vécu une déqualification et une dévaluation de leur éducation et de leur expérience professionnelle passées. En conséquence, beaucoup d'entre eux o…
Toward recognitive justice
As a result of globalization and transnational migration, many countries are becoming increasingly ethno‐culturally diverse. Unfortunately, lifelong learning has failed to integrate cultural difference and diversity into educational environments. Rather than facilitating immigrants’ adaptation, lifelong learning has become a vehicle for assimilating immigrants into the dominant norms and values of the host society. To build inclusive and socially…
Reimagining Chinese diasporas in a transnational world
This introduction article examines the changing nature of the Chinese diasporas in a transnational world and its concomitant implications for Chinese diasporas studies internationally. With a shifting paradigm of transnationalism and transnational migration, new patterns of Chinese diasporas can be characterised by unprecedented hypermobility, hyperdiversity, and hyperconnectivity. Such characterisations depict the global dispersal of overseas Ch…
Governing through non/recognition
Despite claims that prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) can act as a transformative social mechanism and a means of social inclusion, this study reports that PLAR has become a serious barrier to adult learning rather than a facilitator. Drawing from Foucault’s concept of governmentality, the study examines the difficulties that immigrant professionals have experienced in having their foreign credentials and work experience recognized…
Internationalization of Canadian higher education
The internationalization of higher education in Canada is happening at a rapid pace. One manifestation of internationalization is the increasing enrolment of international students in Canadian institutions. There is little research on international undergraduate students’ experiences from their own perspectives as they adapt to a new educational system in Canada. This research examines how internationalization policies at a university in Western …
The politics of recognition
The unprecedented transnational mobility that skilled immigrants have experienced in the global war for international talents has made foreign credential recognition a policy challenge for many countries. Under the pressure of critics, Canadian governments recently launched new initiatives to facilitate foreign qualification recognition through policy interventions. Using critical discourse analysis, this article analyses the policy orientation o…
Immigration, Integration and Welcoming Communities
Despite the fact that municipalities are primary recipients of immigrants to Canada, they almost have no formal role in developing immigration and integration policies and programs. As such, they are primarily left or kept out of the current model of immigration and integration governance. Since immigration and integration are not stand-alone issues, they require partnership and collaboration involving multiple levels of government and community …
Multiculturalism, Ethnicity and Minority Rights
Ethno-specific organizations are often criticized for threatening national unity, diluting Canadian identity, and promoting ghettoization and separatism. Drawing from two case studies, this article examines the role of Chinese ethnic organizations in responding to changing community needs in Edmonton and Calgary. The study results suggested that ethno-specific organizations can be an effective alternative in providing accessible and equitable soc…
Immigrants as active citizens
Despite the fact that immigration has played an important role in transforming Canada into an ethno-culturally diverse and economically prosperous nation, immigrants themselves are often criticised as passive citizens. This study attempts to deconstruct this myth by investigating the volunteering experiences of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. The study adopts a case study approach, drawing on questionnaires completed by 196 Chinese immigrants an…
Navigating transition to work
From International Migration to Transnational Diaspora
Revisioning Education for All in the age of migration
Lifelong learning in the age of transnational migration
Migration is a topic of great and enduring interest because almost every country is involved in this process as a source, transit or destination country, or indeed all three simultaneously. Economi
Conceptualizing virtual transnational diaspora
Transnational migration brings to the fore the various social and professional connections migrants maintain with their home and sojourn countries. Drawing on a qualitative case study with 12 Chinese transnational academics in the field of the social sciences and humanities in three higher education institutions in Beijing, China, this article explores their transnational ways of being and belonging. Informed by the theoretical lens of transnatio…
Changes in Chinese education under globalisation and market economy
Fuelled by forces of globalisation, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to the 'socialist market economy'. This study examines changes in Chinese education under globalisation and market economy, focusing on the teaching and living conditions of teachers. The study reveals that the profound transformation of social and economic life has resulted in significant changes to education in China, as manifested in curriculum ref…
Chinese immigrants in vancouver
Theorising decolonisation in the context of lifelong learning and transnational migration
In the age of transnational migration, the practices and policies of lifelong learning in many immigrant-receiving countries continue to be impacted by the cultural and discursive politics of colonial legacies. Drawing on a wide range of anti-colonial and anti-racist scholarship, we argue for an approach to lifelong learning that aims to decolonise the ideological underpinnings of colonial relations of rule, especially in terms of its racialised …
Revisioning curriculum in the age of transnational mobility
Under the new mobilities paradigm, migration is conceptualized as circulatory and transnational, moving us beyond the framework of methodological nationalism. Transnational mobility has called into question dominant notions of migrant acculturation or assimilation. Migrants no longer feel obligated to remain tied to or locatable in a “given”, unitary culture. Rather, they are becoming embedded within a shifting field of increasingly transcultural…
Migration and communities
This commentary article focuses on the theme of migration and communities. It raises a number of important concerns inherent in the report. The report mistakenly adopts the 'sameness' approach, thus negating Britain's unprecedented super‐diversity that is the result of increasing migration. It wrongly assumes that all migrants are the same and require similar modes of services and lifelong education programmes. A second issue pertains to the soci…
Decolonising lifelong learning in the age of transnational migration
Beyond multiculturalism
Canada was the first country in the world to establish multiculturalism as its official policy for the governance of diversity. Canadian multiculturalism has gained much popularity in political and public discourses in the past 50 years, and it has also received no less criticism as to its effectiveness in addressing issues of racism. There have also been ambiguities over the meaning and intention of multiculturalism, leading to divergent underst…
Exploring initial school integration among Syrian refugee children
This paper explores the initial integration experiences of Syrian refugee children in schools in Canada. We conducted two focus groups with twelve Syrian refugee parents and three focus groups with eighteen children. Our research shows that Syrian refugee children experienced emotional barriers while struggling with their identity as Syrian “refugees.” Their low English proficiency, English only practice in classrooms and teachers’ low expectatio…
Canadian Ethnic Studies in the Changing Context of Immigration
Canadian Ethnic Studies in the Changing Context of Immigration: Looking Back, Looking Forward Loyd Wong and Shibao Guo The year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études Ethniques au Canada! The journal started fifty years ago as an interdisciplinary publication devoted to the study of ethnicity, immigration, inter-group relations, and the history and cultural life of ethnic groups in Canada. As we celebrate this importa…
Learning as sociocultural practice
The last few decades have witnessed both an expansion and a transformation of immigration flows, which pose significant challenges with respect to how people work with differences across culture and space. Against this background, this paper explores how some Chinese immigrant engineers respond to differences in the Canadian labour market. It not only examines some of the learning practices engaged by the immigrants as they negotiate professional…
Language, Work, and Learning
This study, involving a questionnaire and personal interviews with participants from more than 10 ethnic minority groups, explores the work and learning experiences of ethnic migrant workers in China's Beijing and Shenzhen. The study reveals that China's ethnic migrant workers face multifaceted barriers in their adaptation to urban life. They worked for long hours with low pay. They experienced homesickness and isolation as a result of migration …
Exploring Current Issues in Teacher Education in China
Teachers have had a long-honored standing in Chinese history. Yet the formal education of teachers is a relatively new development. This article reviews the historical development of teacher education in modern China and its current provisions. A number of issues pertaining to the preparation of teachers for both adults and children are examined. This article reveals that the teacher education system in China is inadequate and requires urgent rem…
The Changing Face of Chinese Immigrants in Canada
Chinese immigrants in vancouver
Exploring teacher education in the context of Canada and China
Difference, deficiency, and devaulation
Many immigrant professionals experience devaluation and denigration of their prior learning and work experience after arriving in Canada. The roots of nonrecognition can be traced to the following. First, epistemological misperceptions of difference and knowledge lead to a belief that the knowledge of immigrant professionals, particularly those from Third World countries, is deficient,incompatible and inferior, hence invalid. Second, an ontologic…
Governing through non/recognition
Despite claims that prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) can act as a transformative social mechanism and a means of social inclusion, this study reports that PLAR has become a serious barrier to adult learning rather than a facilitator. Drawing from Foucault’s concept of governmentality, the study examines the difficulties that immigrant professionals have experienced in having their foreign credentials and work experience recognized…
Language, Work, and Learning
This study, involving a questionnaire and personal interviews with participants from more than 10 ethnic minority groups, explores the work and learning experiences of ethnic migrant workers in China's Beijing and Shenzhen. The study reveals that China's ethnic migrant workers face multifaceted barriers in their adaptation to urban life. They worked for long hours with low pay. They experienced homesickness and isolation as a result of migration …
Lifelong learning in the age of transnational migration
Migration is a topic of great and enduring interest because almost every country is involved in this process as a source, transit or destination country, or indeed all three simultaneously. Economi
Migration and communities
This commentary article focuses on the theme of migration and communities. It raises a number of important concerns inherent in the report. The report mistakenly adopts the 'sameness' approach, thus negating Britain's unprecedented super‐diversity that is the result of increasing migration. It wrongly assumes that all migrants are the same and require similar modes of services and lifelong education programmes. A second issue pertains to the soci…
Toward recognitive justice
As a result of globalization and transnational migration, many countries are becoming increasingly ethno‐culturally diverse. Unfortunately, lifelong learning has failed to integrate cultural difference and diversity into educational environments. Rather than facilitating immigrants’ adaptation, lifelong learning has become a vehicle for assimilating immigrants into the dominant norms and values of the host society. To build inclusive and socially…
Multiculturalism, Ethnicity and Minority Rights
Ethno-specific organizations are often criticized for threatening national unity, diluting Canadian identity, and promoting ghettoization and separatism. Drawing from two case studies, this article examines the role of Chinese ethnic organizations in responding to changing community needs in Edmonton and Calgary. The study results suggested that ethno-specific organizations can be an effective alternative in providing accessible and equitable soc…
Multiculturalism Turns 40
Multiculturalism Turns 40:Reflections on the Canadian Policy Lloyd Wong and Shibao Guo This is the second special issue published by Canadian Ethnic Studies to commemorate the 40th anniversary of multiculturalism. In the last special issue, we traced the genesis of multiculturalism to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Canada, also known as the Laurendeau-Dunton Commission, which was established almost fifty years ago under…
Changes in Chinese education under globalisation and market economy
Fuelled by forces of globalisation, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to the 'socialist market economy'. This study examines changes in Chinese education under globalisation and market economy, focusing on the teaching and living conditions of teachers. The study reveals that the profound transformation of social and economic life has resulted in significant changes to education in China, as manifested in curriculum ref…
Learning as sociocultural practice
The last few decades have witnessed both an expansion and a transformation of immigration flows, which pose significant challenges with respect to how people work with differences across culture and space. Against this background, this paper explores how some Chinese immigrant engineers respond to differences in the Canadian labour market. It not only examines some of the learning practices engaged by the immigrants as they negotiate professional…
The politics of recognition
The unprecedented transnational mobility that skilled immigrants have experienced in the global war for international talents has made foreign credential recognition a policy challenge for many countries. Under the pressure of critics, Canadian governments recently launched new initiatives to facilitate foreign qualification recognition through policy interventions. Using critical discourse analysis, this article analyses the policy orientation o…
Economic Integration of Recent Chinese Immigrants in Canada's Second-Tier Cities
Un examen de l'intégration économique des immigrés chinois à Calgary et à Edmonton révèle dans cette étude que ceux qui sont arrivés récemment se heurtent à des obstacles sur plusieurs fronts, en particulier en ce qui concerne la langue et l'emploi. De plus, suite à leur immigration au Canada, ils ont vécu une déqualification et une dévaluation de leur éducation et de leur expérience professionnelle passées. En conséquence, beaucoup d'entre eux o…
Introduction
Immigrants as active citizens
Despite the fact that immigration has played an important role in transforming Canada into an ethno-culturally diverse and economically prosperous nation, immigrants themselves are often criticised as passive citizens. This study attempts to deconstruct this myth by investigating the volunteering experiences of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. The study adopts a case study approach, drawing on questionnaires completed by 196 Chinese immigrants an…
Revisioning Education for All in the age of migration
Revisiting Multiculturalism in Canada
In 1971 Canada was the first nation in the world to establish an official multiculturalism policy with an objective to assist cultural groups to overcome barriers to integrate into Canadian society while maintaining their heritage language and culture. Since then Canadaâ s practice and policy of multiculturalism have endured and been deemed as successful by many Canadians. As well, Canadaâ s multiculturalism policy has also enjoyed international …
Immigration, Integration and Welcoming Communities
Despite the fact that municipalities are primary recipients of immigrants to Canada, they almost have no formal role in developing immigration and integration policies and programs. As such, they are primarily left or kept out of the current model of immigration and integration governance. Since immigration and integration are not stand-alone issues, they require partnership and collaboration involving multiple levels of government and community …
From International Migration to Transnational Diaspora
Chinese returnees’ motivation, post-return status and impact of return
The study analyzed 143 empirical studies on Chinese returnees published during 2005−2015. Three major categories of research topics emerged from the analysis: motivations for return, post-return status and the impact of returnees in China. The review detected two major debates in the literature concerning the impact of remittances and the contributions of returnees. Though variables such as gender, age, marital status and duration of the stay abr…
Revisioning curriculum in the age of transnational mobility
Under the new mobilities paradigm, migration is conceptualized as circulatory and transnational, moving us beyond the framework of methodological nationalism. Transnational mobility has called into question dominant notions of migrant acculturation or assimilation. Migrants no longer feel obligated to remain tied to or locatable in a “given”, unitary culture. Rather, they are becoming embedded within a shifting field of increasingly transcultural…
Foe or friend of adult education? The paradox of multicultural policy for adult immigrants in Canada
This study explores adult education programmes under the auspices of multiculturalism at a Chinese cultural centre in Canada in helping immigrants with their cultural development and integration in Canadian society. The study employs an exploratory case study approach combining methods of document analysis and personal interviews. The findings reveal the paradox of multiculturalism as both an enabler and constrainer for adult and lifelong educati…
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