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AB  - The notion of refugees as a viable source of labor to address skill shortages in the destination country?s labor market has rarely been the dominant discourse on refugee entrants. Bella?s1 lived experience as a professional woman who arrived as a Syrian conflict refugee to Australia in 2017 presents an outlier in refugee research and challenges conventional scholarly wisdom and public discourse. A combination of human capital, a purposeful use of networks, supported by her desire for recognition and a deep sense of self-worth allowed her to navigate the formalized and structured Australian business landscape. Accordingly, she was able to overcome the stigma of being a refugee: Less worthy of employment status in a position representative of her overseas skills and qualifications. In drawing on an outlier methodology and critical theory, we develop a more nuanced understanding of the agency of skilled and qualified refugee women drawing attention to lessons for business which typically takes a ?one size fits all? approach to labor integration.
AU  - Groutsis, D
AU  - Collins, J
AU  - Reid, C
DA  - 2024/01/01
DO  - 10.1177/00076503231205205
EP  - 241
JO  - Business and Society
PB  - SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
PY  - 2024/01/01
SP  - 213
TI  - ?I?m Not a Refugee Girl, Call Me Bella?: Professional Refugee Women, Agency, Recognition, and Emancipation
VL  - 63
Y1  - 2024/01/01
Y2  - 2026/04/30
ER  -