How do marginalised cultural outsiders negotiate fit into new work settings? I draw on a discursive (re)positioning lens to examine qualitative interview accounts of a group of skilled refugees in Britain and provide insights into three temporal moves they make to portray themselves as unconstrained by a lack of host country cultural know-how, able to swiftly address gaps in knowledge and skills, and able to blend in. I theorise newcomer self-socialisation as a temporal (re)positioning dynamic that involves retrospectively defining oneself as a particular kind of person who has the potential to fit. I argue that temporal (re)positioning enables newcomers to maintain worth, secure external validation and impact on their contexts. I propose that the simultaneous foregrounding and minimising of the past is an important mechanism for skilled refugees to negotiate an ambivalent sense of fit into new work settings.

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谈判适应东道国的工作环境：了解技术难民的过去和现在之间的相互作用


边缘化的文化局外人如何适应新的工作环境？我利用一个话语（重新）定位的镜头来研究对英国一群技术难民的定性采访记录，并深入了解他们为将自己描绘成不受东道国文化知识缺乏的限制而采取的三个临时举措，能够迅速解决知识和技能方面的差距，并能够融入其中。我将新来者自我社交化理论化为一种时间（重新）定位动态，涉及回顾性地将自己定义为具有适应潜力的特定类型的人。我认为，时间（重新）定位使新来者能够保持价值，确保外部验证并对其环境产生影响。我认为，同时突出和最小化过去是有技能的难民在适应新工作环境时产生矛盾的感觉的重要机制。