Migrating for a Profession: Becoming a Caribbean nurse in post-WWII Britain
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Migrating for a Profession : Becoming a Caribbean nurse in post-WWII Britain. / Olwig, Karen Fog.
In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2015, p. 258-272.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Migrating for a Profession
T2 - Becoming a Caribbean nurse in post-WWII Britain
AU - Olwig, Karen Fog
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Youths from the Global South migrating for further education often face various forms of discrimination. This Caribbean case study discusses how conditions in the home country can provide a foundation for educational migration that helps the migrants overcome such obstacles and even develop a strong sense of agency and self-empowerment. In the post-WWII period, numerous Caribbean women trained in nursing at British hospitals that have been described as marred by race and gender related inequality and associated forms of exploitation. Yet, the nurses interviewed about this training emphasised its high quality and downplayed the problems encountered. This positive attitude, it is argued, must be understood in the light of the key ideological role of education, particularly for a profession, as an avenue of social and personal mobility in the late-colonial Caribbean societies and the ways in which it enabled these Caribbean women to stake out a new life for themselves.
AB - Youths from the Global South migrating for further education often face various forms of discrimination. This Caribbean case study discusses how conditions in the home country can provide a foundation for educational migration that helps the migrants overcome such obstacles and even develop a strong sense of agency and self-empowerment. In the post-WWII period, numerous Caribbean women trained in nursing at British hospitals that have been described as marred by race and gender related inequality and associated forms of exploitation. Yet, the nurses interviewed about this training emphasised its high quality and downplayed the problems encountered. This positive attitude, it is argued, must be understood in the light of the key ideological role of education, particularly for a profession, as an avenue of social and personal mobility in the late-colonial Caribbean societies and the ways in which it enabled these Caribbean women to stake out a new life for themselves.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Caribbean
KW - education
KW - mobility
KW - nursing
KW - life stories
KW - subjectivity
U2 - 10.1080/1070289X.2014.939188
DO - 10.1080/1070289X.2014.939188
M3 - Journal article
VL - 22
SP - 258
EP - 272
JO - Identities
JF - Identities
SN - 1070-289X
IS - 3
ER -
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