This work examines the qualifications recognition and career development experiences of internationally educated engineers (immigrants to Canada) through the interaction of boundary crossing and liberal fairness ideals embedded in the qualifications recognition process. The work explored how immigrant engineers experienced boundary crossing, evidence for learning at the boundary, and the dynamic tension between immigrant engineers’ personal transitions within structural commitments to standardization and regulation. Data were collected from 18 voluntary participants who had immigrated to Canada and completed a qualifications recognition process to become registered as professional engineers in Canada and who were in active professional engineering practice. The data provided evidence of changes to immigrant engineers’ personal identity and professional practice, where these changes were forms of learning that facilitated the boundary crossing from newcomer to legitimate participant in the Canadian engineering profession. However, the data did not provide evidence of learning as collaborative co-development of new processes for all actors – newcomers and long-time Canadians alike. Instead, the resilience of the Canadian profession to true integration in favour of an expectation of assimilation of newcomer practices into the Canadian mainstream was illuminated, due to the dominance of foundational commitments in the Canadian qualifications recognition processes to liberal fairness ideals as political mechanisms of risk reduction and access to the profession.

这项工作通过资格认证过程中嵌入的跨界和自由公平理想的相互作用，检验了受过国际教育的工程师（加拿大移民）的资格认证和职业发展经验。这项工作探索了移民工程师如何体验跨境，在边界学习的证据以及在标准化和监管的结构性承诺中移民工程师的个人过渡之间的动态张力。数据是从18名自愿移民中收集的，这些参与者已移民到加拿大并完成了资格认证过程，成为加拿大的专业工程师，并且从事积极的专业工程实践。数据提供了移民工程师的个人身份和专业实践发生变化的证据，这些变化是学习的形式，有助于从新移民到加拿大工程专业的合法参与者的跨越。但是，这些数据并未提供学习的证据，因为这是协作共同开发新的学习过程的证据。所有演员-新移民和长期居住的加拿大人。取而代之的是，由于加拿大资格认证过程中的基本承诺在将自由公平理想作为风险的政治机制的基础上的主导地位，从而使加拿大专业人士具有真正融入的弹性，从而期望将新移民实践纳入加拿大主流。减少和进入该行业。