Moving with the Times: Gender, Status and Migration of Nurses in India
Autor Sreelekha Nairen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 ian 2016
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781138662582
ISBN-10: 1138662585
Pagini: 246
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1138662585
Pagini: 246
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
Introduction 1. Beyond Well-being: Development of Nursing as a Modern Profession in Kerala 2. Status of Nursing: The Sword of Damocles? 3. Choice of Nursing: A Life Strategy 4. Migration: Delhi as a Transit Residence 5. Reconstructing Identities: Diasporic Politics and Gender in Delhi Conclusion Appendix
Descriere
The book is an account of the lives of nurses who migrate from Kerala to work in Delhi. Depicting the dynamics created by patriarchy, this comprehensive study gives the readers an insight into the trials faced by these women as such and in their jobs in hospitals.