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Raghuram, Parvati; Henry, Leroi and Bornat, Joanna
(2010).
Abstract
In recent years the role of social networks, and of social capital, in shaping migrants' lived experiences and particularly, their employment opportunity has increasingly come to be recognised. However, very little of this research has adopted a relational understanding of the migrant experience, taking the influence of non-migrants' own networks on migrants as an important factor in influencing their labour market outcomes. This paper critiques the alterity and marginality automatically ascribed to migrants that is implicit in existing ways of thinking about migrant networks. The paper draws on oral history interviews with geriatricians who played an important role in the establishment of the discipline during the second half of the twentieth century to explore the importance and power of non-migrant networks in influencing migrant labour market opportunities in the UK medical labour market.
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set RES-062-23-0514 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) - Extra Information
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Related articles arising from the same research grant:
Bornat, Joanna; Henry, Leroi and Raghuram, Parvati (2009). 'Don't mix race with the specialty': interviewing South Asian overseas-trained geriatricians'. Oral History, 37(1), pp. 74-84.
Raghuram, Parvati; Bornat, Joanna and Henry, Leroi (2009). Ethnic clustering among South Asian geriatricians in the UK: an oral history study. Diversity in Health and Care, 16(4), pp. 287-296. - Keywords
- South Asian doctors; migrant networks; social capital; oral history; non-migrant networks
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Geography
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport > Education
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- Colin Smith