This book is an attempt to penetrate the silence that surrounds
the lives of nurses as migrant women. It offers a perceptive
understanding of the trials faced specifically by women from the
state of Kerala, in their personal and professional spheres, in the
challenges posed to single women migrants as such, and the lower
status ascribed to the job. In highlighting aspects of their lived
experiences, it reveals how the identities of gender, class and
ethnicity unmask the realities behind claims of egalitarianism and
equal citizenship.
Nurses from Kerala form one of the largest groups of migrant
women workers in the international service sector along with
Filipinos and Sri Lankans. Comparatively better salaries, work
opportunities and financial independence, along with a desire to
travel across the world, are often the reasons behind these
migrations. For many of these women, the professional choice of
nursing is usually the first step towards migration, while finding
employment in Delhi, the urban capital of India, is intended as a
transition point before they migrate abroad, a trajectory which may
remain unrealised.
In focusing on nurses who choose to work in Delhi, the author
recounts how the patriarchy of the original place is recreated and
relived in destination cities. In as much as traditional
stigmatisation of nursing (as a dirty profession), deeply
entrenched gender prejudices, and status and role anxieties act as
deterrents, these women remain undaunted in the face of adversities
and treat their exposure to, and experience of, technology and
nursing care in the bigger hospitals in Delhi as part of the
training that is required to apply abroad.
Through extensive empirical research, case studies and personal
interviews, Moving with the Times illustrates nurses lives in
Delhi, providing an account of the dynamics between traditional
patriarchy, norms and associated identities, low professional
status and marginality coupled at once with the sense of personal
freedom, a new career and space that migration compels these women
to negotiate.
This book will appeal to scholars of sociology, gender and women
s studies, nursing and healthcare, and those interested in
migration and identities.
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