{"id":3810,"date":"2021-03-11T17:55:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T22:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/?page_id=3810"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:53:52","slug":"academic-abstract-unveiling-the-canvas-ceiling-lit-review-of-refugee-employment-and-workforce-integration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/our-research\/academic-abstract-unveiling-the-canvas-ceiling-lit-review-of-refugee-employment-and-workforce-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Abstract \u2013 Unveiling the Canvas Ceiling: Lit. Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Academic Abstract \u2013 Unveiling the Canvas Ceiling: Lit. Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"unveiling-the-canvas-ceiling-a-multidisciplinary-literature-review-of-refugee-employment-and-workforce-integration\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unveiling the Canvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic Abstract:<\/strong> 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 multidisciplinary literature on refugee employment and workforce integration. Using a relational framework, we organize our findings around three levels of analysis \u2013 institutional, organizational and individual \u2013 to outline the complexity of factors affecting refugees\u2019 employment outcomes. Based on our analysis, we introduce and elaborate on the phenomenon of the canvas ceiling \u2013 a systemic, multilevel barrier to refugee workforce integration and professional advancement. The primary contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we map and integrate the multidisciplinary findings on the challenges of refugee workforce integration. Second, we provide management scholarship with a future research agenda to address the knowledge gap identified in this review and advance practical developments in this domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Refugees, Workforce integration, Literature review, Barriers to employment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"related-links\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authors:<br>\n<\/strong>Eun Su Lee, Betina Szkudlarek, Duc Cuong Nguyen and <a href=\"https:\/\/sprott.carleton.ca\/profile\/luciara-nardon\/\">Luciara Nardon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media:<br>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wX5vVLrIs1E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Overcoming the canvas ceiling &#8211; Promoting refugee employment,&#8221;<\/a> video abstract created by researchers at the University of Sydney Business School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unveiling the Canvas Ceiling: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review of Refugee Employment and Workforce Integration Academic Abstract: Increasing levels of displacement and the need to integrate refugees in the workforce pose new challenges to organizations and societies. 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