SOSC 2211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Capital, Skilled Worker, Social Inequality
9 Mar 2020
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Title: the color of skill: contesting a racialized regime of skill from the recent immigrants in canada. That the skills of recent immigrants in canada are racialized and materialized on the basis of ethnic and national origins. Skin color is central basis of social marking". That skill is not only gendered and classed but also racialized. In recent years canada"s immigration selection practices typically focus on education and skills, believing that they are better human capital. The notion of skill is problematic and contested, guo uses fenwick to highlight the flaw in the conceptions of skill, that it is assumed that skills are ingested and not socially constructed. According human capital theory (hct), a skill is a concrete and measurable attribute of an individual, acquired through education or training. Hct views skill development as an investment to attain economic prosperity. Skills are a floating signifier that obscures context, inequities and the social nature of the learning process itself".
