Increasing levels of displacement and the need to integrate refugees in the workforce pose new challenges to organizations and societies. Extant research on refugee employment and workforce integration currently resides across various disconnected disciplines, posing a significant challenge for management scholars to contribute to timely and relevant solutions. In this paper, we endeavour to address this challenge by reviewing and synthesizing multidisciplinary literature on refugee employment and workforce integration. Using a relational framework, we organize our findings around three levels of analysis – institutional, organizational and individual – to outline the complexity of factors affecting refugees’ employment outcomes. Based on our analysis, we introduce and elaborate on the phenomenon of the canvas ceiling ‒ a systemic, multilevel barrier to refugee workforce integration and professional advancement. The primary contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we map and integrate the multidisciplinary findings on the challenges of refugee workforce integration. Second, we provide management scholarship with a future research agenda to address the knowledge gap identified in this review and advance practical developments in this domain.

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揭开帆布天花板的面纱：难民就业和劳动力整合的多学科文献综述

流离失所人数的增加以及将难民纳入劳动力队伍的需求给组织和社会带来了新的挑战。目前，有关难民就业和劳动力整合的现有研究涉及多个相互独立的学科，这对管理学者为及时和相关解决方案做出贡献提出了重大挑战。在本文中，我们致力于通过审查和综合有关难民就业和劳动力整合的多学科文献来应对这一挑战。我们使用关系框架围绕三个分析级别（机构，组织和个人）来组织研究结果，以概述影响难民就业结果的因素的复杂性。在分析的基础上，介绍和阐述了帆布天花板的现象。refugee阻碍难民队伍融合和专业发展的系统性，多层次障碍。本文的主要贡献是双重的。首先，我们绘制地图并整合有关难民劳动力整合挑战的多学科研究结果。其次，我们为管理奖学金提供了一个未来的研究议程，以解决本次审查中发现的知识差距并推动该领域的实际发展。