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(2015).“To Get a Foot in the Door”: New Host Country Educated Immigrant Teachers’ Perceptions ofTheir Employability in Finland. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 40 (3).  \n[http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2014v40n3.3](http://dx.doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2014v40n3.3)  \nThis Journal Article is posted at Research Online.  \n[http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol40/iss3/3](http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol40/iss3/3)  \nAustralian Journal of Teacher Education  \n“To Get a Foot in the Door”:  \nNew Host Country Educated Immigrant Teachers’  \nPerceptions of Their Employability in Finland  \nKaisa Hahl  \nHeini Paavola  \nUniversity of Helsinki, Finland  \nAbstract: This article sets out to find factors that promote or hinder  \nemployment opportunities for immigrant teachers educated in the  \nhost country. The data were collected through online questionnaires  \nand focus group discussions among two student cohorts. After a year  \nof graduating from English-medium teacher education in Finland, the  \nemployment situations ranged from full-time permanent teaching  \nposts in Finland to unemployment. Although the majority was  \nsuccessful in securing at least some work, no one was teaching in  \nmainstream classrooms in a Finnish-medium school. The scope of  \nteaching qualifications and references from substitutions were  \nconsidered factors for employment. Lacking “strong enough” Finnish  \nskills or native English skills was experienced as the main hindrances  \nto employment. Although generally the participants did not perceive  \ntheir nationality a hindrance to employment, ‘nativeness’ in certain  \nlanguages seemed to play a role. Being a native English (or  \nsometimes another major language) speaker promoted job  \nopportunities in international schools.  \nIntroduction  \nSocieties and labour markets enjoy increased diversity but employment is distributed unequally between different population groups. Immigration has grown around the world but immigrants continue to have higher unemployment than the original population (Fleischmann & Dronkers, 2010) . Generally, a lack of various resources, such as language skills, education, work experience, social relationships and networks, is raised as explanation or excuse for immigrants’ weaker employment status (Liu, 2007; George, Ghaze, Brennenstuhl, & FullerThomson, 2012)—in addition to employers’ lack of trust toward immigrant workers and negative attitudes and prejudices in society (Heath & Cheung, 2007) .  \nAlthough Finland is a relatively new immigration destination country, it has experienced rapid growth in foreign-born residents in the past decades. What makes the context relevant for readers elsewhere is that Finland’s situation is similar to other small population countries that have had few ethnic minorities of their own but now deal with a population that is increasingly multicultural and multilingual. As both of Finland’s officiallanguages (Finnish and Swedish) are small on a global scale, the immigrant experience in Finland is comparable to that in countries where immigrants typically have little prior familiarity with the local language.  \nThe ensuing demographic changes from the growth in immigration are seen and felt, among others, in schools. The schools are in need of teachers with immigrant backgrounds in order for the school staff to mirror the demographics of society and include both visible and  \nVol 40, 3, March 2015 36  \nAustralian Journal of Teacher Education  \ninvisible minorities (Sleeter & Milner, 2011) . This article sets out to learn how first generation immigrant teachers—re","cbCairKo6StHLXYL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairKo6StHLXYL","pdf",164877,17,"English","# Introduction\n## Immigrants in the Finnish Labour Market\n## Employment factors for new host-country educated teachers","[{\"question\":\"What does the article aim to determine about immigrant teachers’ employment?\",\"answer\":\"It examines factors that promote or hinder employment opportunities for immigrant teachers educated in the host country.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the data collected for the study?\",\"answer\":\"Through online questionnaires and focus group discussions with two student cohorts.\"},{\"question\":\"What were the main hindrances to employment reported by participants?\",\"answer\":\"Lacking sufficiently strong Finnish skills or native English skills was experienced as the main barrier.\"}]","“To Get a Foot in the Door” - New Host Country Educated Immigrant Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Employability in Finland - Article 3 | PDF",1792077535,43]