New professional immigrants, who come to Canada with significant education and work experience, often find themselves underemployed after immigration. As a result, many immigrants undergo some form of re-training post-immigration. This study was a sub-study of a larger Canada Research Chair project exploring the career development and re-training experiences of new professional immigrants to Canada. This particular study focused on exploring such experiences from an existential perspective. Within a qualitative research framework, 10 semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with new professional immigrants to Canada. A grounded theory approach was adopted for data analysis. Several themes emerged and key findings, including participants’ relationship with the core existential concepts of death, freedom, and meaning are introduced. Results also compare how existential considerations were related to participants’ level of career satisfaction in Canada. Results have theoretical implications for career and vocational psychology and implications for practice, including professional and self-helping.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2007 / Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Social Work. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-119).

Thesis (M.A.R.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1996. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-54).

Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 375-406).

Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-72).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1976. / Vita. Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-04-17Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:48:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 santos_la_me_arafcl.pdf: 546329 bytes, checksum: 324c61317bbe9b716489e242fd60c552 (MD5) / Fluxo-Floema, o primeiro livro de ficção de Hilda Hilst, publicado em 1970, apresenta uma narrativa com estilo peculiar em que a pontuação torna difícil identificar, imediatamente, quem fala e com quem falam os personagens no texto. Além disso, a narrativa em prosa mistura enredo e ação, revelando-se como poesia, graças a sua flutuação entre filosofia e ficção e aos efeitos do grotesco, inscritos na escolha das palavras e na organização estratégica do texto. O objetivo deste estudo é demonstrar como o grotesco é construído na narrativa e como seus efeitos provocam a sensação de incerteza e desconforto, expondo o homem em angústia e o seu viver em conflito existencial, construindo a poética grotesca e desarmônica de Hilda Hilst. / Fluxo-Floema, Hilda Hilst's first book of fiction, published in 1970, presents a narrative whith a peculiar style, in which the lack of punctuation makes it difficult to identify, immediatelly, either who speaks or with whom the characters speak in the text. Furthermore, the narrative prose is a mixture of plot and action, revealing itself as poetry, thanks to its fluctuation between philosophy and fiction which is constructed along with the effects of the grotesque inscribed in the choice of words and in the strategic organization of the text. The objective of this study is to show how the grotesque is constructed in the narrative and how its effects provoke the sensation of uncertainty and discomfort exposing man in anguish and his living in an existential conflict, constructing Hilda Hilst's grotesque and inhospitable poetic.