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Moving with the Times - Gender, Status and Migration of Nurses in India (Paperback)
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Moving with the Times - Gender, Status and Migration of Nurses in India (Paperback)
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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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