Running Head: Double Jeopardy Double Jeopardy: An Exploratory Study of Youth from Immigrant Families Entering the Job Market (This is the pre-copy edited version) Authors: Miu Chung Yan, Ph.D.* Associate Professor University of British Columbia School of Social Work 2080 West Mall Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2, Canada Email:
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[email protected] This paper was published in 2012 in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, volume 10 (Issue 1), pages 96-115. Running Head: Double Jeopardy 1 Abstract: This paper reports findings of an online survey and 16 in-depth interviews that show family and friends are neither the predominant nor most useful social resource for young jobseekers from immigrant families. Instead, they tend to use more formal job search strategies. In our sample, the employment outcomes of ethno-racial minority immigrant youth were less desirable than those of their counterparts from the dominant group. Based on the study’s findings this paper argues that being an ethno-racial minority and being from an immigrant family become a double jeopardy for this group of new generation youth when they enter the competitive job market. For many countries over the last few decades, global migration has generated a large group of new generation youth from immigrant families who either immigrated to the host country when they were very young or were born there.