Significance of the study

The study challenges the deficit construct of immigrants through a strength-based study of immigrants’ learning within professions. It explores how immigrants advance professionally, with particular attention paid to the roles they play in the transfer, translation and transformation of knowledge and practices in the engineering profession in Canada. Research findings will help build a heuristic device to understand immigrants’ learning and knowledge practices, and to map the social, cultural, material, and organizational policies and practices that are conducive to immigrant engineers’ learning and knowledge practices.