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Shing, Li Wai. "Understanding lived experience and professional development : the life history of a Chinese migrant teacher." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288083.
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Dhungel, Basundhara. "A Study of Nepalese Families' Paid and Unpaid Work after Migration to Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/375.
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The patterns of paid and unpaid work adopted by migrants families with dependent children are more or less similar to that of prevailing working pattern of men and women of Australian born couples. A case study with 28 couple families, 14 husbands and 14 wives who migrated from Nepal under "skill" or "professional" category and the literature review on paid and unpaid work of couple families with dependent children show that in both families the trend of change of working pattern in paid and unpaid work is similar. With the increased participation of married women in the paid labour force, men increased participation in household work. There is increased household work for both husbands and wives, but women tend to do more household "inside" and childcare work than men. In the mean time, men tend to do more work in the "masculine" sphere of "outside" work in house maintenance, repair and car care. The only factor that differentiates working pattern of migrant families with Australian born families is the experience of migration and the category that they migrated. The change of working practice of paid and unpaid work of migrant families are affected by the change of family type from extended family to two generational family and their education and previous work experience that they brought along with them. Professional migrants who migrated family as a "unit" migrated spouse and dependent children together and they made their own decision to migrate, unlike other categories of migrants who migrated from political or economic pressure. One of the important experiences of migrant families is that there are new opportunity, new lifestyle, new intimacy and companionship and new sharing of work between husbands and wives after migration. At the same time, there are losses of extended family relatives, close friends and cultural event which affects their day to day lives. There are Australian based friends who provided support in the initial period of migration but these families do not provide regular assistance or support which family relatives provided in Nepal.
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Dhungel, Basundhara. "A Study of Nepalese Families' Paid and Unpaid Work after Migration to Australia." University of Sydney. Social Work Social Policy and Sociology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/375.
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The patterns of paid and unpaid work adopted by migrants families with dependent children are more or less similar to that of prevailing working pattern of men and women of Australian born couples. A case study with 28 couple families, 14 husbands and 14 wives who migrated from Nepal under "skill" or "professional" category and the literature review on paid and unpaid work of couple families with dependent children show that in both families the trend of change of working pattern in paid and unpaid work is similar. With the increased participation of married women in the paid labour force, men increased participation in household work. There is increased household work for both husbands and wives, but women tend to do more household "inside" and childcare work than men. In the mean time, men tend to do more work in the "masculine" sphere of "outside" work in house maintenance, repair and car care. The only factor that differentiates working pattern of migrant families with Australian born families is the experience of migration and the category that they migrated. The change of working practice of paid and unpaid work of migrant families are affected by the change of family type from extended family to two generational family and their education and previous work experience that they brought along with them. Professional migrants who migrated family as a "unit" migrated spouse and dependent children together and they made their own decision to migrate, unlike other categories of migrants who migrated from political or economic pressure. One of the important experiences of migrant families is that there are new opportunity, new lifestyle, new intimacy and companionship and new sharing of work between husbands and wives after migration. At the same time, there are losses of extended family relatives, close friends and cultural event which affects their day to day lives. There are Australian based friends who provided support in the initial period of migration but these families do not provide regular assistance or support which family relatives provided in Nepal.
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Kim, Jeehun. "Managing Intergenerational Family Obligations in a Transnational Migration Context : Korean Professional and Educational Migrant Families in Singapore." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517183.
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Perschová, Kristína, and Mai Thu Ngo. "SKILLED MIGRANT SITUATION ON THE LABOUR MARKET : How do the Difficulties to Find a Job in Their Professional Field Affect The Job Search Motivation for Skilled Migrants?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160883.
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This thesis describes the current situation on the Swedish labour market as many skilledmigrants have problems to find a relevant job. It explains the barriers for employment, aswell as the support mechanisms used to help the integration on the labour market. Particularfocus lies on the job search motivation, and how do the difficulties to find a job in arelevant professional field affect the job search motivation, and what are the reasons forthese effects. Thematic analysis is used to find recurring themes in the data collected from 5 semistructured interviews, 2 questionnaires and 1 additional interview from an employeeworking with the skilled migrants. Empirical findings show, that the respondents feel that local companies prefer localemployees, and that the migrants ascribe their difficulties to find a relevant job position todiscrimination, as it is common that they get rejected without being able to meet thecompany’s representatives in person. Countless rejected applications are causing feelings offrustration, hopelessness and the migrants’ doubt their ability to find a relevant job, whichleads to decreased job search motivation and underemployment. Furthermore, therespondents are rather motivated by extrinsic motivational factors than intrinsic motivators.However, the findings show that they believe that the job search becomes easier withaccumulated experience and that the difficulties with finding the right job makes therespondents more committed to the attained job. Finally, the authors formulate suggestionsfor further research. KEYWORDS: labour market integration, skilled migrants, job search motivation
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Okeleke-Nezianya, Vincent Ifechukwu. "A multi-level, mixed-methods study of family management framework : a migrant Nigerian professional dual-earner families perspective." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2005. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/7966/.
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The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed what is undoubtedly one of the most important socio-demographic changes in the labour market both developed and developing countries. For the first time, women and married women entered the labour market on a massive scale. One of the consequenceso f this socio-demographics hift is the dynamic in family management framework. Particularly for professional married women with dependent children, who continues to bear the main responsibility for taking care of the family, also for professional married men, who are expected increasingly to be involved in domestic and childcare tasks. This dynamic in family management framework is even more acute for migrant Nigerian professional dual-earner families because of absence of support from their extended families. Given the fact that migrant Nigerian professional dual-earner families with dependent children as a collective, and qualitatively, as method have been largely neglected in the literature, I decided to embark on a multi-level, mixed-method study of family management framework from a migrant dual-eamer professional families perspective. The study is mixed-method, because I use both qualitative and quantitative methods to study the theme. It is multi-level study, because, a) I address at the micro level the attitude and behaviour of the couples to family management, b) at the mesolevel/macro-level, how the migrants perceive their experiences from the British government employers, and c) the mainstream and how they have adapted in their new environment. In the first study, I review and confront two practically divorced literatures: the literature on management of domestic and childcare tasks and other strands of family tasks. I point to the gap in the literature and the need to recognise this in order to understand fully the family management frameworks within contemporary families. In the second study, I explore how the families perceive their treatment by the government, employers, and the mainstream population and their level of enculturation in Britain. The study use hermeneutics phenomenology method (i.e. indepth interview and group discussion). The study suggests that the field may be overlooking some fundamental variables. Interpretative analysis of the interview transcripts reveals the importance of understanding immigrant's perception of their new environment, immanent or tacit actions such as how they interpret their status, relate to the mainstream values and beliefs and the influences of sending context on their adaptation. The study contributes to the field a different theoretical approach to the study of family management framework among people who leave one country to settle in another country. In the third study, I explore the couple's attitudes and behaviour to family management framework using a quantitative study of 286 respondents. The analysis reveal that traditional attitudes of sex-specific assignment of family work did loose some of their consensus, but are far from having disappeared. The analysis also reveal a two dimensional management structure whereby, wives are dominantly responsible for domestic and childcare tasks, also performs majority of the domestics tasks and childcare; the husbands are dominantly responsible for house services tasks and provider roles and performs most the house-services tasks and provider role. I found also, that major changes in the couple's socio-demographic characteristics i.e. educational qualifications, narrower age gap, and both couple's participation in labour market point less towards clear-cut egalitarianism, which could be an alternative to traditional gender structure. The study shows that a 'modernized traditional' form of family management is salient among this sub-group of immigrant Nigerian families living in London. In a fourth study I use interpretive analysis of the interview transcripts of 18 professional dual-earner couples to explore factors that may explain the prevalence of modernised traditionalism of family management framework. I found that exogenous social rhythms, personal beliefs, and interpersonal negotiation of individual partners play an important role. As a conclusion, I recommend the need to integrate the literatures on management of domestic and childcare tasks with other areas of family work such as provider role and family house-servicesta sks to come up with a model that is useful for both academics and practitioners. In addition, to take into consideration in future studies of immigrants or disabled people etc. The effects of sending context (i.e. reasons for immigrating) and the immigrant perception of their new environment as these variables could have influencing effects on their behaviour. Finally, I suggest that family management research need fresh models that reflect the contemporary world in which families exists.
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McClean, Tracey. "An exploration into the professional and personal challenges facing migrant and overseas generalist Registered Nurses working and living in two small island communities." Thesis, University of Bath, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.690739.
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Introduction: The recruitment and retention of Registered Nurses (RNs) in Guernsey and Alderney has been a continual challenge over the years. Whilst measures have been put in place to address the problem, these solutions have had little sustained impact on the problem. The current vacancy rate is double that being experienced by National Health Service (NHS) Trusts outside of the London area. This study proposed to explore the recruitment and retention problem in a more holistic way by capturing the experiences of RNs who are working within the Islands. Study aim: To explore the professional and personal challenges facing generalist RNs working and living in two small island communities. Methodology: An experience-centred narrative research methodology was used to explore the experiences of 20 newly appointed RNs and 15 long-serving RNs. The data consisted of 35 ‘stories’ which were captured through the use of semi-structured interviews, written accounts and visual media. The data was analysed using a critical hermeneutic approach. Results: Sixteen themes were identified and aligned with the conceptual framework underpinning the study. The stories of the participants were used to develop a model to demonstrate the acculturation process they were experiencing. Conclusions: It was recognised that all new recruits undergo a process of acculturation when they take up employment in the Islands. The study demonstrated that the process of acculturation was a continual journey and that the longer-serving participants were also undergoing a process of adjustment to the on-going cultural changes taking place in the organisation. The research highlighted that this acculturation process was influenced by multiple inter-connected factors which contributed to the challenges perceived by the participants. Whilst these factors had some commonality with those identified in the literature, the specific nature of the issues raised by the participants in this study were context dependent.
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Campos, João Paulo de Souza. "Mobilidade geográfica de trabalhadores qualificados : principais evidências para o Brasil e o Espírito Santo." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFES, 2014. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/1290.
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O objetivo desta dissertação, de forma geral, foi estimar empiricamente a probabilidade de imigração interestadual de trabalhadores qualificados para o Brasil. Consideraram-se tanto as variáveis relativas ao indivíduo quanto as variáveis relacionadas aos fatores regionais de origem e destino do imigrante e as análises foram feitas para os anos de 2001, 2006 e 2011. Para estimar os coeficientes das variáveis explicativas foram utilizados os modelos probit e logit. Os bancos de dados utilizados foram os microdados da PNAD e os principais resultados mostram que o principal polo de atração de trabalhadores qualificados é o estado de São Paulo. Em geral a probabilidade de migração de trabalhadores qualificados é maior para os indivíduos do sexo masculino, brancos e solteiros. Pessoas mais jovens e com maiores salários também são mais propensas a serem imigrantes qualificados.
The purpose of this dissertation, in general, was empirically estimate the probability of interstate migration of skilled workers to Brazil. We considered both variables concerning the individual as related to regional factors origin and destination of immigrants and the analyzes were made for the years 2001, 2006 and 2011. Probit and Logit Models were used to estimate the coefficient of the explanatory variables. The databases used were the PNAD and the main results show that the main pole of attraction of skilled workers is the state of São Paulo. In general the probability of migration of skilled workers is higher for male individuals, white and unmarried sex. Younger and higher income people are also more likely to be skilled immigrants.
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Pustelnikovaite, Toma. "The working lives of migrant professionals : exploring the case of migrant academics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14129.
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This thesis examines the working lives of foreign-born academics who come to work to the UK. Its main aim is to understand the degree and conditions of migrant scholars' inclusion in professional practice abroad. The thesis fulfils this aim by developing a conceptual approach to encapsulate how migrant professionals' working lives are conditioned by the pre-existing professional structures. Grounded in the principle of social closure, this framework proposes that migrant professionals' employment abroad is influenced by the different forms and rules of closure, as well as by the sites in which closure rules are applied. The synthesis of the theoretical framework with findings from sixty-two interviews with foreign-born scholars employed in thirteen British universities shows that migrant academics' working lives are explained by ‘modes of incorporation'. ‘Modes of incorporation' designate the distinct ways in which the academic profession has reacted to the increased presence of foreign incomers, and comprise integration, exclusion, subordination and indifference. The proposed framework extends the understanding of the demographic change in professions, and offers a way to capture migrant professionals' movement across countries.
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Carter, John. "Ethnicity, equality and the nursing profession." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336835.
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Benson, Alan. "Migrants becoming mathematics teachers : personal resources and professional capitals." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2017. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/2603/.
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This study traces the professional learning of student teachers who have lived and studied outside the UK, and successfully applied to follow a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) course in London to become teachers of mathematics in English schools. It draws upon Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and field to discuss how these student teachers adapt their capitals, as described in migration studies by Erel (2010) and Nowicka (2015) and how, during initial teacher training (ITT), they develop professional capitals for the teaching of mathematics (Nolan, 2012). Recent migration flows have led to a growth of diversity, as measured by countries of origin, in London and other cities around the world, resulting in what Vertovec (2006) has called superdiversity. Through a series of semi-structured interviews with 16 PGCE student teachers hailing from 13 different countries, this study explores the implications of superdiversity for the practices of training teachers. The focus of the research is on the complications of ‘bring[ing] off’ (MacLure, 2003:55) the embodied performance of becoming a teacher, and on how student teachers develop ‘enough’ (Blommaert and Varis, 2011:5) professional capital to pass the course. This leads to a reassessment of the category ‘highly skilled migrant’, which is used to define those who have academic qualifications for teaching from outside the UK. The study uses instead the term ‘highly qualified migrant’, to argue that a mathematical degree needs to be complemented by knowledge of the national mathematics curriculum, national pedagogies and local communicative resources. It shows how London can become an ‘escalator region’ (Fielding, 1992:1), as the student teachers achieve a working life that matches their academic qualifications, and also their own aspirations and those of their families, in the UK and elsewhere. In so doing, they become part of a teaching workforce that reflects the growing superdiversity of the region’s school pupils.
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Jurman, Marina. "Social inclusion and professional female migrants in multicultural Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14608.
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The goal of the thesis is to scrutinise the experiences of professional female migrants in Australia. The study was undertaken in the context of the emergence of a policy focus on ‘social inclusion’ and ‘social exclusion’ in Australia and elsewhere and in the context of renewed debates in Australia about multiculturalism. Social inclusion refers to a policy focus on enabling the full participation of citizens in the life of the nation, including economic, social, cultural and political participation (Gillard & Wong, 2007). In turn, social exclusion refers to a policy focus on identifying and addressing groups whose participation is constrained, often measured along the dimensions of consumption, production, political engagement, social support and cultural life (see for example, Burchardt, Le Grand, & Piachaud, 2002; Richardson & Le Grand, 2002). This research is interested in testing the relevance of these frameworks for understanding and addressing the experiences of professional female migrants in multicultural Australia. The thesis involved a study of twenty professional female migrants living in Sydney who participated in in-depth interviews. All respondents belonged to a highly skilled occupational group and a prerequisite was that they held a primary professional qualification before migration to Australia. Participants, who were from both English speaking and non-English speaking backgrounds provided detailed narratives of their lives and experiences since migration to Australia, and these narratives provided a window into the specificities of professional female migrants’ perceptions of moving to Australia, settling in Australia and ‘belonging’ in Australia. These insights add to the body of knowledge on migration and social inclusion and exclusion. The research found that the relevance of the dominant social inclusion framework for analysing their migration and settlement experiences is only partial: this is because of the prioritisation of economic participation as a route to social inclusion. The social inclusion framework, consequently, fails to recognise the cultural dimension of social inclusion by assuming that social inclusion in multicultural Australia can be achieved and maintained through the active economic participation of Australian citizens. In addition, the study found that the dominant social inclusion policy framework does not recognise an important aspect of professional female migrants’ identity: transnational relationships and transnational belonging. In terms of the specificities of professional female migrants’ experiences, the thesis proposes a structure for talking about differences in experiences of inclusion that uses measures such as participation in paid work, either in mainstream or in ethno-specific workplaces; participation in social life, either in or in and beyond their own ethnic community; self-perception of being, or not being, included - a dimension that was often based on whether or not they experienced racism. Based on these factors, women’s experiences could be categorised as varying between deep, borderline, marginal and shallow inclusion. The thesis also finds that although social inclusion does not equal assimilation or a transition from being a migrant, social inclusion is possible in the context of ethnic and cultural differences.
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Schmidt, Amanda, and Patrick Gräfe. "Vårdpersonalens upplevelser i vården av papperslösa : Ett vårdetiskt perspektiv." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-4290.
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Bakgrund: En människa som saknar uppehållstillstånd, saknar ofta vissa rättigheter till vård. Vårdpersonal möter papperslösa patienter i olika sammanhang vilket skapar en stor variation av inställningar och uppfattningar om deras rätt till vård. För att uppnå en rättvis och fungerande vård för denna utsatta grupp krävs bland annat tydliga riktlinjer och flexibilitet av sjuksköterskan. Syfte: Att skildra vårdpersonalens, med inriktning mot sjuksköterskans, upplevelser och etiska argument i vårdandet av papperslösa. Metod: Litteraturöversikt baserad på elva vetenskapliga artiklar hämtade i databaserna SwePub, CINAHL with Full Text och Academic Search Premier. Artiklarna har analyserats enligt Fribergs (2012a) modell. Resultat: Resultatet presenteras i fem huvudkategorier och två underkategorier. Första huvudkategorin är Vårdpersonalens inställning till att vårda papperslösa vilket visar att åsikter går isär kring papperslösas rätt till vård. Andra huvudkategorin är Upplevelser kring regelverk och riktlinjer där det framkommer att det råder oklarheter kring dessa. I den tredje kategorin Vårdrelation framkommer det att flexibilitet krävs av sjuksköterskan i mötet med papperslösa. Den fjärde huvudkategorin är Vårdpersonalens upplevda barriärer i vården som har två underkategorier. Den femte och sista huvudkategorin är Organisationer och deras samarbete och visar på ett behov av samarbete mellan vårdinstanser, myndigheter och frivilligorganisationer. Diskussion: Resultatet analyseras utifrån Beauchamp och Childress (2013) vårdetiska teori om de fyra principerna om autonomi, att inte skada, att göra gott samt rättviseprincipen. Diskussionen visar att konflikter uppstår mellan principer och att lagar och restriktioner leder till etisk stress och etiska kostnader.Background: A person without a residence permit, often lacks certain rights to care. Health professionals encounter undocumented patients in different contexts which generates a large variety of perceptions of their right to health care. Clear guidelines and flexibility is required by the nurse in order to achieve a fair and effective care for this vulnerable group. Aim: To describe the experiences and ethical arguments of health professionals and nurses in particular in the care of undocumented migrants. Method: A literature review based on eleven scientific articles were used and selected from the databases SwePub, CINAHL plus with Full Text and Academic Search Premier. The articles have been reviewed and analyzed by the Friberg model (2012a). Results: The results are presented in five main categories and two subcategories. The first main category Health professionals’ attitudes towards caring for undocumented migrants indicates that opinions differ about their rights and access to health care. Ambiguities towards the regulations are shown in the second main category Experiences surrounding regulations. The third category Caring relationship shows that flexibility is required by the nurse when caring for undocumented migrants. The fourth category presents Barriers perceived by health care professionals. The fifth and final category Organizations and cooperation demonstrates a need for health care institutions, government agencies and NGO’s to collaborate. Discussions: The result is analysed according to Beauchamp and Childress (2013) care ethical theory concerning the four principles: respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice. The discussion shows that conflicts occur between the principles. Laws and limits lead to ethical stress and costs.
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Waite, Catherine. "Professional cricket migrants 'going Down Under' : temporary, skilled, international migration?" Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/18483.
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The significance of flows of temporary, skilled labour migrants under conditions of globalization is widely acknowledged. Using a case study of elite cricket professionals moving from the UK to Australia for a maximum duration of 6 months, out and return migration flows and processes are examined. In doing so, this thesis exposes migration motives, notably in relation to career progression and personal development, and the processes and regulations that control temporary sojourns. Furthermore, the discussion reveals important social, cultural, economic and familial impacts of undertaking temporary, skilled, international migration. Using this case study of a sport-led migration, a largely under-researched occupational sector in migration studies, a number of theoretical, conceptual and empirical contributions are provided, which advance knowledge of skilled, international migration. First, utilising Bourdieu's (1986) notions of capital as an analytical framework, the comparative importance of migration motives are emphasised. Second, it is shown that migration can be viewed as a normalised aspect of a skilled worker's career trajectory, and that desired outcomes can be achieved during increasingly temporary stays overseas. Third, a three phase model of the migration flow is adopted to enable the development of professionalization and migration within cricket to be examined. It is asserted that cricket, as a professional sport, has changed under conditions of globalization, alongside smaller scale developments initiated by both employers and intermediaries, and the migrant cricketers. It is concluded that these connections will have salience for the other skilled occupations identified in Salt's (1997) typology of highly-skilled migrants.
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Mohyuddin, Syed Mofazzal. "Resolving a crisis of habitus : the experiences of professionals and managers from South Asia in Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/364.
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The aim of this research is to examine the challenges faced by the highly skilled migrant professionals and managers from South Asia as they attempt to advance their careers in Australia. Existing literature reveals a gap between skilled migration policies and responses to those policies by organisations; for example, the non-recognition of overseas acquired skills and qualifications. This thesis explores the nature of the migrant experience paying particular attention to occupational progress.In this thesis, the theory of habitus is employed as a framework for analysis. A person’s habitus is composed of cultural, social and economic capital that, together, form the particular social space that they occupy within certain social conditions – in this case, occupation and career. To support the analysis, disembedding, sense making and acculturation are utilised to help conceptualise the issues relating to the alteration of the occupational/career space brought on by migration.In employing a mixed method research strategy, this thesis combines two qualitative methodologies of phenomenology and analysis of narratives in the collection and analysis of data. The initial stage of the research was to establish an understanding of the ‘home country habitus'. To achieve this, field observation data was collected in Pakistan. The main data collection consisted of in-depth, semi-structured interviews that continued until the data was saturated. In total, twenty-one South Asian migrants fitting the selection criteria were interviewed.The analysis reveals that upon migration, people are uprooted from their inherited social conditions and thrust into new social conditions creating a 'crisis of habitus' characterised here as being a state of 'disembeddedness'. Social capital is lost, economic capital is depleted and cultural capital is transformed in unexpected ways. This prompts attempts at reconciling the crisis, through sense making and, following this, acculturation. The analysis also brings to light that gender is a significant factor in the shaping of this process. It was found that women face more barriers than their male counterparts.While this research is limited to South Asians in an Australian context, it raises some interesting questions worthy of further research in other national contexts and with other migrant groups. It has brought into focus previously unexamined avenues of research and brings to light new theoretical insights. It also has the potential to raise awareness amongst policy makers and business organisations to help them in their quest to recruit and retain skilled and qualified people.
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Calazans, Márcia Esteves de. "Policiais migrantes : identidades profissionais em movimento." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/25753.
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Cette thèse a pour bilán l’analyse des constructions des identités professionelles des policiers militaries qui transitent entre la surveillance ostensive-répressive et ostensive-préventive dans la Brigada Militar. Nous cherchons à compreendre les différentes motivations qui les mettent en movement et analysons les differents réseaux forgés par des connexions interpersonnels et organization en tant que groupe. Le processus de formations des flux migratoires, à lintérieur de l’appareil policier militaire est rendu possible par lês réseaux qui se forment entre le lieu d’origine et celui de destination.O presente estudo analisa a construção das identidades profissionais de policiais militares que migram de grupos e atividades profissionais que têm como base o policiamento ostensivo repressivo para grupos e atividades desenvolvidas no policiamento ostensivo preventivo, desvelando a mobilidade e os trajetos construídos pelos integrantes deste grupo, os processos relativos aos diferentes caminhos percorridos à sua organização atual: as suas vivências profissionais e a rede constituída por estes, a qual dá sustentação à migração, e às múltiplas relações que estabelecem com a comunidade de origem e com a comunidade hospedeira.
This study analyses the construction of professional identities of military policemen who migrate from groups and professional activities based on repressive ostensive policing to groups and activities based on preventive ostensive policing, unveiling the mobility and the paths constructed by the members of this group, the processes related to the different ways that were crossed steering to its present organization: their professional experiences, and the net composed by these people which sustains the migration and the multiple relations established with the original community and the host community.
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Bisping, John. "Political refugees or economic migrants: The case of Polish professionals, 1980-1986." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7718.
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This thesis searches for the presence of economic motives in professionals, who left Poland circa 1980-81. Through this case study of so-called "political refugees", the wider goal is to examine the dichotomy between political flight and economic migration. At issue is the depoliticization of poverty in the Third World, as well as the effect of the cold war on immigration policy in Canada. The results indicate that economic factors constituted important motives for departure in our target population. It is suggested that members of the latter were therefore not political refugees by UN-defined standards.
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Wang, Shaolin. "Economic influences on and impacts of the migration of health professionals." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2010. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/0255a87d-a50e-4197-a3ad-86cfebdaa75b.
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Migration has become an important feature of health labour markets due to the global shortage of health professionals. While there exists an extensive Labour Economics literature studying the general migration, policy development remains hampered by limited research undertaken in the health sector. This thesis fills some of that gap by examining the economic influences on and impacts of the migration of health professionals. The migration of skilled health professionals has exhibited strong sectoral properties, such as the motivation of career development and various regulatory regimes. We incorporate these features into the self-selection model by Borjas and Bratsberg (1996) and examine factors that influence the scale and skill composition of the migration flow. Our model suggests that the restrictive relicensing regime and work permit requirements for non-EEA professionals adopted by the British government to maintain practice standards and secure employment opportunities for native graduates, could only limit the migration from countries with higher returns to skills. The effect is ambiguous for most donor countries, which provide lower returns to skills.Using the administrative data derived from the Scottish dental system, we also examine the impacts of health professional migration within EU on the host country by investigating the performance of EEA dentists contracted under the Scottish NHS in terms of retention and treatment provision. A discrete-time survival analysis has been applied to characterize the time trend of the retention and identify factors associated with the likelihood of a dentist leaving the NHS. We also compare treatments provided by migrant and non-migrant dentists by estimating a difference-in-differences model. Unobserved heterogeneity in dentists is controlled using fixed effects.Our results suggest that EEA health professionals can be a good substitute to British graduates. They provide marginally different treatments and exhibit strong assimilation within two years post-entry. However, a constant issue we have found is their high turnover rates in the NHS: half of them left the service by the 26th month following entry. The primary policy recommendation of our analyses is that there is need for the government to develop recruitment initiatives so as to retain migrant dentists. Our results suggest hazards of leaving are significantly associated with dentists’ age-at-entry, arrival cohort and patient composition, but not with dentists’gender, country and practice deprivation. These findings potentially help to set evidence-based targets for international recruitment programmes
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Rahim, Aisha. "Highly skilled international labour migration : a qualitative study of migrant Pakistani professionals in London's big four accounting firms." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27838/.
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Current Migration Studies literature in Europe can broadly be divided into two major strands. First is dominated by studies on the East-West migration of working class or asylum seeking, postcolonial ethnic groups and problems associated with their subsequent integration/assimilation into the host society. The second, more recent, strand of migration research is that of highly skilled professional migrants, usually hypermobile white men moving across highly-developed countries (for example within the EU), or from developed to less developed countries. This thesis aims to fill a major gap in the existing migration studies literature by focussing on a group of highly skilled Pakistani professionals. Based on a combination of participant observation and in-depth interviews with thirteen Pakistani male accountants and their partners in London, this thesis will explore their personal and professional lives in detail. In particular, it aims to compare this group with a) other highly skilled migrants in Europe and b) working class Pakistani immigrants who have dominated the migration stream to the UK. In terms of their social background, this group is strikingly different to the latter due to its urban, middle class origins where all men and most women possess tertiary level degrees. They do not follow the typical migration channel of chain migration to the UK and do not tend to live in ethnic clusters as other Pakistani migrants. Marital status sets them apart from European migrants of similar professional background. The thesis shows that experience of working in the one of the biggest accounting firms in the UK is overall positive for many participants but the overemphasis on social skills over technical expertise in the firm’s appraisal system is a major problem since the centrality of drinking in after-work socialisation meant they could not fully participate in such bonding activities. This thesis also captures the life experiences of migrant spouses in terms of marriage, migration, children and “incorporation” into husband’s work. Last, the thesis explores the future aspirations of the participants which mainly include a long term plan of acquiring British nationality as the means to a more lucrative job in the Middle-East. The Middle-East as a permanent destination was considered perfect due to its booming economy, proximity to Pakistan (still viewed as “homeland”) and most importantly Islamic culture which was seen fundamental in upbringing of their children. However, some women were apprehensive of such a move due to the restrictions on women in some Middle-Eastern countries.
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Lee, Mi-ae. "Sortir de la chaîne du care De travailleuses socialistes chaoxianzu (朝鮮族) à domestiques migrantes en France, Corée du Sud et Chine." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMLH15.
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Cette thèse traite des effets de la migration sur le statut professionnel et social des travailleuses domestiques et des nouveaux rapports de subordination qui en découlent, analysés à l'intersection des rapports de genre, de classe et de « race ». Le but de cette recherche est d'aborder l'ordre hiérarchique de ces différents rapports et d'analyser les causes structurelles de la subordination. Les travailleuses migrantes chaoxianzu appartenaient à la classe symboliquement au pouvoir dans la Chine socialiste, en tant qu’ouvrières industrielles et agricoles. En examinant leur expérience de travail dans cinq villes de trois pays - France, Corée du Sud et Chine - nous analysons comment les conditions de travail de chaque société d’immigration affectent leur statut en tant que travailleuses. Les participantes à notre recherche vivent et perçoivent leur expérience de travail à la lumière de l’habitus professionnel de la Chine socialiste, basé sur la fierté en tant que travailleuses. Selon leur perception, dans la migration, elles ne changent pas pour un niveau hiérarchique et professionnel inférieur, mais souffrent, collectivement, de la position subalterne des travailleurs domestiques sans-papiers dans le référentiel de l’ordre hiérarchique de la société capitaliste. Plutôt qu'un travail trivial, elles perçoivent leur métier comme une somme de tâches nobles, physiques et émotionnelles. Elles s’inscrivent dans la chaîne globalisée du care. Mais, en s'interrogeant sur leur statut subalterne, elles remettent en cause la logique de reproduction de la hiérarchie socialeThis thesis deals with the effects of migration on the occupational and social status of domestic workers and the resulting new relationships of subordination that are analyzed at the intersection of gender, class and ‘race’ relations. The purpose of this research is to address the hierarchical order of these different relationships and to analyze the structural causes of subordination. The Chaoxianzu women migrant workers belonged to the class symbolically in power in socialist China, as industrial and agricultural workers. By examining their work experience in five cities in three countries - France, South Korea and China - we analyze how the working conditions of each immigration society affect their status as women workers. The participants in our research live and perceive their work experience in light of their professional habitus of socialist China, based on pride as women workers. According to their perception, in migrating they do not change for a lower hierarchical and professional level, but collectively suffer from the subordinate position of undocumented domestic workers typical for capitalist society’s hierarchical order. Rather than perceiving their job as trivial, they see it as a sum of noble, physical and emotional tasks. They are part of the global chain of care. But, in questioning their subordinate status, they undermine the logic inherent to the reproduction of social hierarchies
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Kapindula, Beatrice. "An investigation into the reasons for people's migration : a case of Zambian professional migrants in Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11249.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-64).This study investigates the reasons behind international migration of people. In particular, the study looks at the reasons behind professional migrants from Zambia to South Africa, taking Cape Town as a case study. The analysis is anchored around five different theoretical frameworks which explain migration from a micro and macro perspective. Theories founded on micro principles are the traditional push and pull theory and the Todaro model. The theory social networks completes the set of micro based models of migration. The two macro theories are the equilibrium and the new international division of labour, which look at the economic inequalities between sending and host regions
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Rahbari, Mojgan. "The marginalized integration accounts of foreign-trained professional migrants in Canada : an analysis of structural and institutional barriers to integration." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/c932906c-9c13-4484-9815-e1eec990c873.
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Persson, Thania. "The World’s oldest Profession does Not have a Place in Modern Feminist society – a qualitative analysis of Talita and KOK e.V.’s described work for trafficking and prostitution victims." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21873.
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The aim of this study is to compare organisations that help victims from human trafficking and prostitution with a focus on undocumented migrants. Germany is one of the chosen countries in this study because of the legalised and regulated prostitution policy and will be compared with Sweden with the contrasting policy in which sex purchase is criminalised but not to sell sex. To answer the study’s research question ‘What are the differences and similarities between the German and Swedish organisations’ approach in providing beneficial needs for the victims such as medical and economic resources?’ a thematic analysis will be used to find similarities and differentiation of the organisations describing methods that is stated on their websites. The paper uses feminist theories through approaches from feminist Empiricism, feminist Standpoint Epistemology, feminist Liberalism, and feminist Marxism. It is mainly through the feminist Liberal theories that explains how organisation in Germany differentiate in their handling of helping undocumented migrants in prostitution combined with Germany’s laws regarding illegal migrants. Contrary to Sweden that has feminist Marxist point of view regarding the prostitution policy since Sweden recognises all prostitutes as victims. The paper also finds that, by using the feminist empiricism and Standpoint epistemology, the organisations describe their work in similar ways regarding creating awareness of human trafficking.
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Zulauf, Monika. "The occupational integration of female European Union migrants in Britain, Germany and Spain : a case study of the nursing and banking professions." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338997.
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Shumba, Nephat. "Essays on socio-economic integration of migrants in the UK labour market : access (or lack of access) to the professional class, gendering of occupations and earning trajectories." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16473/.
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This thesis investigates socio-economic integration of men and women immigrants (‘Old’ and ‘New’) relative to United Kingdom (UK) born White in the UK labour market. In order to assess my research hypotheses I use both cross-sectional and panel data based on the world’s largest panel survey: UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), (data collected between 2009 and 2014). The first two essays are cross-sectional studies examining access (or lack of access) to the professional class and pay asymmetry of these groups, while, the third paper, uses the full potential attributes of a ‘strict balanced’ panel to investigate occupational status transitions and earning trajectories using a more refined parsimonious random effects model approach. The main findings show that the labour market performance of immigrants differs from that of UK born White in several important ways. The education and experience of immigrants are subject to different ‘rewards’ to those of natives, and immigrants will usually end up in jobs that are a poor match for their education. These findings are in line with the results of the literature in this field. The main contributions of this thesis are twofold: substantively, the thesis addresses and explores the heterogeneity in the groups studied in terms of observable and unobservable characteristics. Also, this study is among the pioneering research being conducted with the re-scaling of complex survey weights associated with the UKHLS.
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Beaudry, Louis-Pierre. "Dans le bois : la sylviculture dans le parcours professionnel de travailleurs immigrants au Québec." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26557.
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Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2015-2016Depuis le début des années 2000, plusieurs immigrants ont intégré le secteur sylvicole de l’industrie forestière québécoise. Analysant un corpus d’entretiens tenus auprès de 16 de ces travailleurs et de 6 de leurs employeurs, ce mémoire présente les différentes étapes de leur parcours professionnel correspondant à leur passage en sylviculture : la recherche, l’introduction, l’occupation et la sortie de l’emploi. Chacune de ces étapes est mise en relation avec les questions cruciales pour les immigrants que sont l’intégration socioprofessionnelle, la qualification et l’ethnicité. De manière générale, l’emploi sylvicole représente pour eux une avenue jugée plus intéressante que leur situation d’emploi préalable, puisqu’il offre une rémunération relativement élevée et neutralise la pénalité qu’ils peuvent subir à cause de leur origine ethnique ; celle-ci agit dans ce cas plutôt comme catalyseur de l’obtention de l’emploi. Deux catégories de travailleurs se profilent selon leur présence projetée en sylviculture : à «long terme» et «de passage». Suivant ces catégories, on peut observer trois stratégies d’orientation du parcours professionnel : pour les premiers – peu scolarisés –, une stratégie de «prolongation», qui vise à profiter de l’intégration jugée satisfaisante offerte par la sylviculture, et pour les seconds – fortement scolarisés –, deux autres stratégies qui prévoient plutôt une sortie de la sylviculture et une quête de qualification qui permettrait l’obtention d’un meilleur emploi. La stratégie d’«adaptation» est caractérisée par l’abandon du domaine de formation prémigratoire, dont l’accès est jugé trop difficile ; la quête de qualification est orientée en fonction des opportunités du marché du travail (conditions et accessibilité de l’emploi). Au contraire, la stratégie de «persistance» donne préséance à l’adéquation de l’emploi avec la formation prémigratoire, quitte à retourner aux études pour la valoriser dans le système québécois. L’analyse identifie des enjeux typiques de la question du travail des immigrants, mais aussi des éléments particuliers à la sylviculture québécoise.
Since the early 2000s, many immigrants have been hired as sylvicultural workers in Québec’s forestry industry. Analyzing interviews conducted with 16 of these workers and 6 of their employers, this thesis presents the different stages of their career path corresponding to their presence in sylviculture: seeking, introducing, occupying and leaving the job. Each of these stages are related with the crucial questions, for immigration matters, of socioprofessional integration, qualification and ethnicity. The analysis shows that sylviculture is considered as a more interesting option than other job opportunities, giving access to higher wages and partially neutralizing the "ethnic penalty". Ethnicity acts as a catalyst in the finding of this job, instead of as a hindrance. Two categories of workers have been identified according to their plans regarding their presence in sylviculture: "long term" versus "transiting" workers. Following these categories, three career path orientation strategies have been observed: for the former – with little education –, a "prolongation" strategy that aims to benefit from the relatively satisfying integration offered by sylviculture, and, for the latter – strongly educated –, two more strategies that rather aim an exit from the sector and the beginning of a "qualification quest" that could allow access to a better job. The "adaptation" strategy is characterized by the abandonment of pre-migratory field of training, whose access is judged too difficult; these workers’ "qualification quest" is strongly oriented by perceived labour market opportunities (work conditions and openings). On the opposite, the "persistence" strategy gives precedence to the match between job and pre-migratory field of training, even if it implies for the workers to go back to school, in order to valorize their training in Québec’s educational system. The analysis identifies typical issues linked to the general question of immigrants’ labour, but also more specific elements particular to Québec’s sylvicultural sector.
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Berhe, Caleb, and Haea Almansour. "Svårigheter högutbildade migrantkvinnor möter på sin väg till arbetsmarknaden : En kvalitativt inriktad studie som belyser högutbildade migrantkvinnors försök att återvända till ett matchande yrke." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Sociologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-43705.
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The aim of this essay is to gain a better understanding of the difficulties highly educated migrant women face in trying to find work that matches their education. Furthermore, the study examines the consequences failing to find a suitable job might cause. Stratification and intersectionality have been used as theoretical framework in order to analyze the way in which mechanisms of exclusion and various intersections influence these women’s work opportunities. The results show that language, age and priorities regarding family play a major part in the possible hardship along the road to a job matching that of their education. This also had a negative effect on some of the informant’s health, self-confidence and career.Studiens syfte är att få en djupare kunskap om vilka svårigheter och hinder som gör att vissahögutbildade migrantkvinnor inte återvänder till en sysselsättning som matchar deras kompetens. Studien undersöker också vilka förväntningar kvinnorna hade om arbets möjligheter i Sverige samt konsekvenser som uppstår av att de inte lyckas återvända till deras tidigare sysselsättning. Stratifiering och intersektionalitet har använts som teoretiskt ramverk för att analysera hur utestängningsmekanismer och olika intersektioner påverkar kvinnornas arbetsmöjligheter. Resultat visar att språk, ålder och prioritering av familjen spelade en betydande roll för misslyckandet av att återvända till ett matchande yrke. Detta ledde till negativa konsekvenser som påverkade flera av informanternas hälsa, självförtroende och karriär.
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Knutsson, Maria, and Karin Rudberg. "Papperslösas tillgång till hälso- och sjukvård : Kunskap och uppfattningar hos personal inom öppen hälso- och sjukvård i landstinget i Uppsala län." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-140911.
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Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka kunskap och uppfattningar om papperslösas tillgång och rätt till vård hos personal inom öppen hälso- och sjukvård i Landstinget i Uppsala län. Ett ytterligare syfte var att undersöka om information kring handhavandet av papperslösa finns på arbetsplatserna, vad personal i så fall anser om detta, samt vad de önskar för information. Studien är av en deskriptiv design med kvantitativ ansats. 86 anställda vid vårdcentraler i Uppsala län besvarade enkäter med frågor angående kunskap och uppfattningar om lagstiftning samt tillgång till och önskan om information gällande papperslösa. Insamlad data har sammanställts i Microsoft Excel och presenterats i tabeller och diagram. Resultatet av studien tyder på att det finns en kunskapsbrist bland personal inom öppen hälso- och sjukvård angående lagstiftningen om papperslösas tillgång till sjukvård. Enligt de medverkandes vetskap finns ingen information tillgänglig på arbetsplatsen gällande papperslösa, och så gott som alla önskar information av något slag. Majoriteten av de tillfrågade anser att papperslösa ska ha samma rätt till vård som svenska medborgare. Slutsatsen av denna studie är att det finns ett behov av information och riktlinjer gällande handläggning av papperslösa i Landstinget i Uppsala län.The aim of this study was to investigate knowledge and opinions concerning undocumented migrants’ access and right to health care among employees within the primary health care sector in the county council of Uppsala. An additional aim was to investigate whether there is information available about management of undocumented migrants at the workplaces, and if so what the employees think about it and what kind of information they wish to receive. The study is quantitative with a descriptive design. 86 employees at primary health care centres within the county of Uppsala answered questionnaires concerning knowledge and opinions about legislation as well as access to and demand for information concerning undocumented migrants. Collected data was compiled using Microsoft Excel and was then presented in tables and diagrams. The result of the study indicates that there is a lack of knowledge among employees within the primary health care sector concerning legislation on undocumented migrants’ access to health care. According to the employees’ knowledge there is no information available at the workplace concerning undocumented migrants, and nearly everyone requested information of some kind. The majority of the employees are of the opinion that undocumented migrants should have the same right to health care as Swedish citizens. The conclusion of this study is that there is a need for information and guidelines concerning management of undocumented migrants in the county council of Uppsala.
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Oliveira, da Silva Diana. "Travailleurs, gestionnaires d'établissements hôteliers et institutions publiques : les acteurs du turnover dans le secteur de l'hôtellerie et de la restauration en Andorre." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU20019.
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L’objet de notre thèse est le turnover, indicateur communément mobilisé par les entreprises pour estimer le taux de roulement de leur personnel. Nous explorons les dynamiques sociales de ce phénomène dans l’hôtellerie et de la restauration, secteur traditionnellement impacté par de forts taux de turnover. Notre terrain d’application est l’Andorre, Etat souverain, dont la politique de gestion de l’immigration est pensée au travers des variabilités du marché de l’emploi.En combinant différentes méthodes sociologiques, cette thèse appréhende les acteurs et les actions qui concernent le turnover de personnel. Nous avons effectué six mois d’observation participante dans des établissements hôteliers andorrans et interrogé via un questionnaire les travailleurs tant sur leurs mobilités sectorielles et géographiques que sur leurs motivations conduisant à ces déplacements. Nous avons également interrogé les gestionnaires des ressources humaines et lobbyistes du secteur sur leurs manières de composer avec le turnover de leur personnel. Au carrefour d’une sociologie des organisations, des professions et d’une sociologie politique de gestion des flux migratoires, cette thèse défend tout d’abord le turnover comme la résultante d’arrangements effectués par les travailleurs et les employeurs vis-à-vis de la variabilité de l’activité touristique. Elle aborde ensuite de l’incertitude (horaires de travail et salaires) comme raison de départ des travailleurs des établissements hôteliers andorrans. Cette thèse éclaire par la suite, les représentations sociales des acteurs et la perspective d’une déprofessionnalisation des métiers de l’hôtellerie et de la restauration. Celle-ci conduit à l’ouverture « du champ des possibles » perçu par les travailleurs en matière d’emploi. Enfin, la thèse expose les conséquences, pour le secteur et pour les travailleurs, de la création d’instruments politiques de recrutement et de gestions des travailleurs-étrangers pour le marché de l’emploi andorran.Cette thèse met en œuvre une approche nouvelle et plus large du turnover en sociologie en associant les dynamiques organisationnelles à l’analyse des politiques publiques et des migrationsThe labor turnover is a common indicator used by companies for evaluating the rate at which employees leave a company and are replaced by new ones. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the social dynamics relative to this indicator in the field of hotel and catering, an industry well-known for its high turnover rates, and in the country of Andorra, a sovereign state surrounded by France and Spain, where immigration policy is based on the fluctuations of its internal job market.To gain insights of the turnover phenomena, referring to actors and their actions, a combination of various sociological methods has been used: a six month participant observation in Andorran hotels; a survey on employees’ mobility and its motivations, be it geographic or sectorial; and finally, interviews with hotel’s human resources managers and lobbyists regarding their adaptive strategies to staff turnover.Standing at the crossroads between sociology of organizations, sociology of work, and sociology of politics on migration flow control, this thesis defines the turnover as a result of arrangements taken by employees and employers to cope with the significant variability of tourism trade activity. It also exposes the uncertainty of work conditions in Andorran hotels – time schedule and wages – as a reason for employees to leave their job. Then, by studying the social representations in the hospitality industry and the perspectives of a de-professionalization of its jobs, the perceptive “range of possibilities” consequently opened to workers on the job hunt is being explored. Finally, this thesis evaluates the impact of political recruiting tools and foreign workers’ management tools, created for the Andorran job market, on the hotel and catering sector and its employees.This thesis introduces a wider definition of the notion of turnover in sociology, by combining organizational dynamics with the study of migration policies
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Preira, Pascal. "Durer dans le métier : la carrière des footballeurs français ordinaires émigrés en Grande-Bretagne." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0170.
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Cette thèse s’appuie sur une enquête de terrain réalisée auprès de cinquante footballeurs français émigrés en Grande-Bretagne et évoluant dans les divisions professionnelles et semi-professionnelles anglaises et écossaises. En adoptant une approche interactionniste, la recherche analyse la manière dont les travailleurs sportifs entrent et se maintiennent dans la profession. Ce travail met en lumière les footballeurs anonymes et la pluralité de leurs engagements qui ont pour finalité l’acquisition puis la conservation du statut de joueur professionnel. Il étudie plus particulièrement ceux dont l’exercice du métier se caractérise par l’incertitude et la précarité. Tous les footballeurs professionnels ne font pas une longue carrière. La thèse démontre que, pour durer dans le métier, les travailleurs sportifs doivent surmonter un ensemble d’épreuves sportives et sociales. Ils apprennent à devenir des joueurs professionnels en le devenant et en multipliant les expériences professionnelles. À travers cette thèse, nous voulons apporter une contribution à la sociologie du travail sportif et à la sociologie des migrations sportivesThis thesis is based on a field survey of fifty French footballers emigrated to Great Britain and playing within the English and Scottish professional and semi-professional leagues. Using an interactive approach, the research analyses of how sport workers enter and remain in the profession. This work highlights anonymous sports workers and the plurality of their commitments in order to access then to keep their professional status. It studies, in particular, those whose profession is characterized by uncertainty and precariousness. All professional footballers do not have a long career. The thesis demonstrates that, in order to last in the profession(game), sports workers must overcome a set of sporting and social obstacles. Footballers learn to become professional players by multiplying professional experiences. Through this thesis, we want to make a contribution to the sociology of sports work and the sociology of sports migration
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Chien, Pei Yin. "No longer salaried professionals : a case study of educated Taiwanese migrant women in the U.S." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1744.
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Most migration literature shows that skilled professionals have upward social mobility. But all of this literature is mostly about men. Plus, it focuses on individuals who are already on the job market. How immigrant women fare in the labor market and what about women who are still not incorporated into the high wage sector are seldom discussed. This research shows that professional migrant women face downward mobility. With limited job opportunities, as a result of having both visible barriers (legal constraints) and invisible barriers (culture, language, social network, credential and so on), the high-achieving migrant women become more "traditional" in the United States. Their roles as wives, mothers, part-time workers, volunteers take on a bigger aspect of their lives than their professional lives. In Taiwan they were far more active in the sphere of the economy, earning an independent income, but in the U.S. that is reversed. The experiences of these educated migrant women demonstrate that immigration does not uniformly empower migrants nor does it imply upward economic and social mobility. The study hopes to be the basis for further investigations of upper middle class migrant women in other areas in the America, and hopes to be the basis for future development to understand migrants’ downwards mobility in general.text
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Mengesha, Zelalem B. "Sexual and reproductive health care of refugee and migrant women in Australia : a mixed methods study of health care professional perspectives." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:48253.
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Cultural and linguistic diversity in Australia, mainly attributed to the Government’s migration programs, is increasing with 49% of the population having been born overseas or having either one or both parents born in a foreign country. Notably, women account for a significant proportion of the total Australian female population, and women account for half of all migrants to Australia. Women from refugee and backgrounds often experience poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes and face several barriers in accessing SRH care at individual, provider and system levels in host countries. In Australia, barriers to SRH services for refugee and migrant women and perspectives on improving access to and the utilization of SRH care are addressed exclusively from end-user perspectives. Understanding the views and experiences of health care professionals (HCPs) in providing SRH care to refugee and migrant women is crucial in helping to ensure the SRH needs of these women are met.
This study involved a sequential mixed methods design to examine the views and experiences of HCPs in providing SRH care to refugee and migrant women in Australia. Commencing with a thematic meta-synthesis of the experiences of refugee and migrant women in accessing SRH care in Australia, an online survey to identify HCP reported barriers and facilitators of providing SRH care to refugee and migrant women followed which was completed by seventy-nine HCPs. Concurrently, forty-six of these HCPs undertook a Q study exploring refugee and migrant women’s SRH in Australia to identify the challenges HCPs perceive in providing SRH care to these women. Then, twenty-one HCPs from this initial sample participated in a semi-structured interview to explore in further depth the barriers and facilitators in providing SRH care to refugee and migrant women that had been identified from the previous stages of the project. Finally, the findings of the systematic review, survey, Q and qualitative analyses were combined through a process of triangulation that enables these data sets to be connected and interpreted simultaneously through convergence and corroboration. The study was informed by the socio-ecological model, situated within a critical realist epistemological paradigm.
Overall, three overarching themes were identified across the socio-ecological framework as barriers that impact refugee and migrant women’s access and utilisation of SRH care, as well as care provision: The Vulnerable Woman, The “Unprepared” Health Care Provider, and Healthcare System Gaps. HCPs reported vulnerabilities related to refugee and migrant women such as country of origin experiences, resettlement priorities, linguistic and cultural barriers to communication, culture and gender roles, poor knowledge about their body, SRH and available services significantly influence their access and utilisation of SRH care and care provision in several ways. Furthermore, HCPs’ lack of preparedness in relation to their knowledge, training and confidence to provide SRH care to refugee and migrant women was a barrier to the SRH care of refugee and migrant women. Participants also reported on factors associated with the health system such us lack of services and resources and difficulty of navigating the system that further compromised refugee and migrant women’s access and utilisation of SRH care. The implications of the research findings suggest that interventions to improve refugee and migrant women’s access and utilisation of SRH care could focus on the provision of culturally sensitive SRH education to the women, reduction of cross-cultural communication barriers, and engagement of HCPs in an ongoing process of improving cultural competency. It is also argued that further research is needed to understand refugee and migrant men’s perspectives about gender roles, cultural norms and joint family planning decisions including their knowledge and attitude towards SRH.
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WU, PEI-HSUAN, and 吳佩璇. "A Study on How Migrant Learning Centers Located in Maesot Area on the Thai-Myanmar Border Improve Teacher Professional Development with the Establishment of a Teaching Resource Center." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u4582b.
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Migrant learning centers in Maesot area on the Thai-Myanmar border are unique education institutions in Thailand. Although they are located inside Thailand, the teachers and students of the school are all from Myanmar. They teach in Burmese and use the Burmese curriculum. The migrant community move frequently due to the change of political situation and labor market. Most of the school teachers didn’t receive enough training and often have low level of education. Glocal Action, a NGO from Taiwan, has established a teaching resource center with local partners to improve teacher professional development. This study is a case study developed from the practice of field work. It provides a detailed record of the local teacher professional development and how to improve it through the establishment of ‘”Teaching Resource Center”. TRC provides training and resources that help to improve teachers' general knowledge and educational expertise. The training brings changes in teaching methods and school curriculum. Resources provided by TRC promote personal learning activities which expand the subject knowledge and general knowledge of teachers. Another advantage beyond measure is the social capital of the migrant learning center community. It forms the teacher professional development concepts in the point of view of local teachers, which accumulate the capacity of teacher professional development in migrant community. As a way to respond to the professional development of local teachers, TRC provides three strategies for teacher professional development. By connecting resources to conduct cross-school teacher professional develop activities, accumulate social capital of each school and make effective use of resources. Secondly, develop training lessons suitable for migrant schools and provide a platform for local teachers to play an important role to guide the develop of teacher profession. Finally, provide resources for individual learning activities so that local teachers can motivate their independent learning abilities. The researcher found that the difficulties in the operation of TRC are management, goals, resources and external factors. In response to these difficulties, the researcher proposes to promote the right people and keep long-term management, accompany stably and communicate equally with local teachers, promote TRC actively and establish more network. Empower TRC managers and the community to take responsibility, combine with their practical experience and the understanding of local needs to achieve the goal is also important. Also TRC is expected to open to community members or out-of-school youth and children in the future. In this case, the effectiveness of TRC can be continuously tracked. In addition to assisting teachers in professional development, will TRC lead to the development of the overall migrant community? Is the same project suitable for other migrant areas or vulnerable areas? These are all worth to conduct in future research.
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Shea, Lenri. "Professional migrants in Cape Town : identity, culture and community." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2118.
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Before the 1990's, African migrants did not perceive South Africa as an ideal migration destination. This changed after the end of the apartheid era. The new political climate in the country and the new migration movements linked to increased globalisation changed the situation significantly. South Africa became an attractive migration destination, particularly also for professional African migrants.
In this dissertation a select group of black professional/skilled migrants from non-SADC countries, who are resident in Cape Town, are studied. It is shown that such transients defy any migration typology within the South African context. Their position in the world of economic migrants is not automatically one of cosmopolitanism, privilege and glamour. Their decision to migrate is also not necessarily voluntary.
The explication and analysis of the context and circumstances of the migrants are conducted with specific reference to:
- professional mobility vis a vis identity, culture and community
- human mobility and globalisation
- the demographics and legalities of immigration to South Africa
- origin, identity and the construct of `home'
- the `host' nation and perceptions, stereotypes and xenophobia
- personal networks and adaptation
- the notion of space becoming place.
What is thus demonstrated and interrogated is that `belonging' in this world is a process of change and fluctuation. `Crossing borders' will mean different things to different people - especially also for skilled/professional migrants. Issues such as class, gender, race, citizenship, ethnicity and sexuality, play a role in how `belonging' is defined and how people assign meaning to movements across borders.Anthropology and Archaeology
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Lee, Mi-Ae. "Sortir de la chaîne du care De travailleuses socialistes chaoxianzu (朝鮮族) à domestiques migrantes en France, Corée du Sud et Chine." Thesis, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMLH15/document.
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Cette thèse traite des effets de la migration sur le statut professionnel et social des travailleuses domestiques et des nouveaux rapports de subordination qui en découlent, analysés à l'intersection des rapports de genre, de classe et de « race ». Le but de cette recherche est d'aborder l'ordre hiérarchique de ces différents rapports et d'analyser les causes structurelles de la subordination. Les travailleuses migrantes chaoxianzu appartenaient à la classe symboliquement au pouvoir dans la Chine socialiste, en tant qu’ouvrières industrielles et agricoles. En examinant leur expérience de travail dans cinq villes de trois pays - France, Corée du Sud et Chine - nous analysons comment les conditions de travail de chaque société d’immigration affectent leur statut en tant que travailleuses. Les participantes à notre recherche vivent et perçoivent leur expérience de travail à la lumière de l’habitus professionnel de la Chine socialiste, basé sur la fierté en tant que travailleuses. Selon leur perception, dans la migration, elles ne changent pas pour un niveau hiérarchique et professionnel inférieur, mais souffrent, collectivement, de la position subalterne des travailleurs domestiques sans-papiers dans le référentiel de l’ordre hiérarchique de la société capitaliste. Plutôt qu'un travail trivial, elles perçoivent leur métier comme une somme de tâches nobles, physiques et émotionnelles. Elles s’inscrivent dans la chaîne globalisée du care. Mais, en s'interrogeant sur leur statut subalterne, elles remettent en cause la logique de reproduction de la hiérarchie socialeThis thesis deals with the effects of migration on the occupational and social status of domestic workers and the resulting new relationships of subordination that are analyzed at the intersection of gender, class and ‘race’ relations. The purpose of this research is to address the hierarchical order of these different relationships and to analyze the structural causes of subordination. The Chaoxianzu women migrant workers belonged to the class symbolically in power in socialist China, as industrial and agricultural workers. By examining their work experience in five cities in three countries - France, South Korea and China - we analyze how the working conditions of each immigration society affect their status as women workers. The participants in our research live and perceive their work experience in light of their professional habitus of socialist China, based on pride as women workers. According to their perception, in migrating they do not change for a lower hierarchical and professional level, but collectively suffer from the subordinate position of undocumented domestic workers typical for capitalist society’s hierarchical order. Rather than perceiving their job as trivial, they see it as a sum of noble, physical and emotional tasks. They are part of the global chain of care. But, in questioning their subordinate status, they undermine the logic inherent to the reproduction of social hierarchies
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Brito, Paula Bauab. "Migrantes qualificados e o mercado de trabalho: desafios e oportunidades." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/63687.
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Relatório de estágio de mestrado em educação (área de especialização em Formação, Trabalho e Recursos Humanos)Migração é um tema recorrente na atualidade. Muito ainda precisa ser discutido sobre o assunto, seja com relação aos nacionais que saem do país ou dos estrangeiros que estão a chegar. Há debates sobre a importância da migração, a necessidade ou criação de novas políticas, a integração, entre outros. É um fenómeno global, acontecendo neste momento em Portugal mas também no Brasil ou no Canadá, por exemplo. Dentro desse universo, decidimos tratar neste trabalho a integração profissional de migrantes qualificados nacionais de países terceiros (NPT) no mercado de trabalho de Portugal. Considerando o amplo escopo desse fenómeno, esse foi o perfil escolhido para focarmos nesta investigação. Neste sentido, procuramos desenvolver um quadro teórico-conceptual em torno do movimento migratório em Portugal, explorando a importância das políticas de integração e quais são as principais praticadas no país. E, em particular, perceber a problemática da integração profissional dos migrantes qualificados NPT, os desafios enfrentados nesse percurso, as oportunidades identificadas, em especial sobre os migrantes nacionais do Brasil. Para este feito, realizamos uma investigação com o recurso a diferentes técnicas de recolha de investigação como a entrevista, o inquérito por questionário, a análise documental e grupos de discussão, com o envolvimento de responsáveis de instituição de apoio à integração dos migrantes e dos próprios migrantes. Para além deste trabalho, também realizamos ao longo de todo estágio acompanhamento no atendimento ao migrante em um CLAIM e participamos em diversas atividades relacionadas com a temática que a instituição de estágio desenvolveu ou esteve envolvida. Regista-se que constatamos nesta investigação como principais razões para a não integração laboral na área de qualificação: o processo de reconhecimento de diploma, o preconceito, a desvalorização profissional e a falta de feedback no processo seletivo. Dessa forma, a integração não compatível à formação académica do migrante ocorre devido a razões externas a pessoa migrante, considerando a primeira por motivo institucional/legislação e as demais por motivo cultural.
Migration is a recurring theme today. There is still much to be discussed on the subject, whether in terms of nationals leaving the country or foreigners arriving. There are debates about the importance of migration, the need or development of new policies, integration, among other factors. This is a global phenomenon going on right now in Portugal, but also in Brazil or Canada, for example. In this context, we decided to address the professional insertion of qualified third-country nationals (TCNs) in the Portuguese labor market. Given the large scope of this phenomenon, this was the profile we chose to focus on. In this sense, we aim to develop a theoretical and conceptual framework around the migratory movement in Portugal by exploring the importance of integration policies and which are the main ones practiced in the country. And, in particular, to understand the problem of professionally inserting qualified TCNs in the country, the challenges faced in this path, the opportunities identified, based on data collected mainly on migrants from Brazil. To this end, we conducted an investigation using different research collection techniques such as interview, survey by questionnaire, document analysis and discussion groups, with the involvement of heads of institutions that supports the integration of migrants and the migrants themselves. In addition to this work, we also carry out throughout the internship the follow-up on migrant service in a “CLAIM” and participate in various activities related to the theme that the internship institution developed or was involved in. It is noted that in this research we found as the main reasons for a non-professional integration in the area of qualification: the diploma recognition process, prejudice, professional devaluation and lack of feedback in the recruitment process. Thus, integration that is not compatible with the migrant's academic background occurs due to reasons external to the migrant person, considering the first one for institutional/legal motive and the rest for cultural motive.
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Song, Hyekyung (Kay). "Imagined communities, language learning and identity in highly skilled transnational migrants: a case study of Korean immigrants in Canada." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4209.
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With the global trend of transnational migration, a huge influx of highly skilled immigrants has been influencing Canadian society and economy. However, there is little literature that illuminates highly skilled migrants’ workplace experiences and their identities in terms of second language acquisition. This multiple case study explores three highly skilled Korean immigrants’ experiences, focusing on the interplay of their language learning, identity, and workplace communities. Grounded in the notion of “imagined communities” (Kano & Norton, 2003) and the theory of “communities of practice” (Lave & Wenger, 1991), this study analyzes the process of how highly skilled migrants have constructed their imagined workplace communities. By revealing the multiple dynamic negotiations co-constructed by the workplace contexts and the individuals, this study shows the interlocked relationship between second language learning, identity, and the given community. This study also argues the importance of membership and positive social arrangements in a community for language learning.
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Otu, Monica Njanjokuma. "An exploration of the lives and livelihoods of African professional migrants in institutions of higher learning : the case of University of KwaZulu-Natal." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/815.
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This study focuses on the lives and livelihoods of foreign African academics at UKZN. The study attempts to unpack the driving forces behind their decision to migrate and why South Africa has become a preferred destination for these migrants. It explores the kind of networks that inform them of employment opportunities that are available in institutions of higher learning in South Africa. It also sets out to explore the kind of skills possessed by these migrants that are needed for the development of skills in the institution. Research findings reveal a combination of micro and macro factors as reasons surrounding foreign African professional migrancy in South Africa. Macro factors are subsumed under general and structural reasons which include high unemployment rates, corruption, nepotism, and other forms of political oppressions and infrastructural problems. Over and above the relative viability of South African institutions with modern technological facilities and well organised curricular and material structures serve as major attractions to foreign African professional migrancy into the country. The factors of cultural affinity and geographical proximity are also among the reasons that foreign African academics at UKZN cited for their migration into South Africa. The individual in this study constitutes the basic unit in providing a more nuanced understanding of why this group of foreigners migrated to South Africa. In this regard personal reasons such as family pressure and change of geographical space form an integral part of reasons surrounding their migrancy in South Africa. Following the professional convenience that UKZN offers, this research showcases the desire expressed by various migrants under this study to pursue and establish a scholarship that would promote and legitimise Africa as an intellectual space of knowledge production. Being a “Premier University of African Scholarship”, professional migrants from the rest of the continent have indicated their willingness to dedicate their services within their different capacities to develop a curriculum that meets the needs of South Africa and Africa. The study shows some contributions that foreign academic are making in the development of the institution. From a social perspective the study highlights how professional African migrants have reconstructed gender roles and household constitution. Transnational migration as shown by this study reveals changing patterns in gender as African women just like the men are engaged in transnational activities for economic and career advancement. African women with educational skills whether married or unmarried have independently undertaken the decision to migrate for economic and social upliftment.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009.
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Boulianne, Corinne. "Récit d'une mouvance identitaire à travers les interactions quotidiennes de professionnels migrants en réinsertion au monde du travail." Mémoire, 2011. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/3865/1/M11967.pdf.
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Le visage de nos sociétés québécoise et canadienne est maintenant celui d'un métissage des cultures. L'immigration apporte son lot de préoccupations sociales, dont l'insertion professionnelle, qui figure en tête de liste. Toutefois, ce parcours de réinsertion professionnelle est jalonné d'obstacles, tout particulièrement pour les individus qui exerçaient une profession régie par une corporation. Ce mémoire fait état du cheminement de réinsertion professionnelle en mettant l'accent sur le vécu des professionnels migrants. Le but poursuivi est de cerner comment ceux-ci vivent les interactions au quotidien dans ce contexte et de saisir comment cette situation infléchit leur sentiment d'identité professionnelle. Notre piste de recherche suggère que des interactions invalidantes marquent le vécu communicationnel des professionnels migrants et peuvent, du fait de la souffrance engendrée, nuire au maintien de l'équilibre identitaire. Pour arriver à nos fins, une approche qualitative et compréhensive a été préconisée. Trois moyens ont servi pour mener l'investigation : une participation observante prolongée dans un centre d'aide à l'emploi pour nouveaux arrivants, une étude documentaire au fil de la recherche de même que des entrevues menées dans une perspective de récit de vie thématique. Les données recueillies ont révélé la présence d'interactions dévalorisantes et d'une souffrance chez les sujets. Toutefois, il est apparu que ces expériences avaient un poids relatif dans leur vécu. Il est ressorti que la souffrance el l'anxiété n'émergeaient pas seulement de ces interactions, mais aussi (et surtout) de l'écart ressenti entre le parcours professionnel idéal et le parcours réel, ainsi que de la difficulté à satisfaire des besoins psychologiques fondamentaux. L'analyse a permis d'identifier les stratégies mises en œuvre pour contrer la souffrance éprouvée. Enfin, les résultats indiquent que les professionnels migrants de l'étude doivent procéder non pas à une reconstruction, mais à un réaménagement de leur identité professionnelle.
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Chikarara, Splagchna Ngoni. "Professionals ‘gleaning’ at the margins : the workplace integration of Zimbabwean engineers in the public sector of the construction industry in Pretoria and Johannesburg." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25636.
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The global development of capitalism and the transition from ‘Fordism’ to ‘flexible accumulation’ intensified international migration especially the migration of professionals. ‘Flexible accumulation’ hinges on different forms of flexibilities mainly labour market flexibility, which is, made possible by dividing the labour force into ‘core’ and ‘periphery’. Migrant professionals, however, occupy a unique position. As foreigners they can be easily marginalised in the social, cultural and political processes in the workplace. At the same time they hold scarce skills that are crucial for the success of business organizations. The social ordering and the nature of interactions between employees at the workplace, generally, mirror what happens in the wider economic, social and political spheres. The reverse is also true. Thus, the workplace has the potential to perform an integrative function by connecting individuals with the larger society or by connecting individuals from different racial and ethnic groups. This is particularly important in heterogeneous countries, like South Africa, that are made up of diverse racial and ethnic population groups and significant numbers of immigrants. Despite its integrative capacity, there are also social and cultural processes that take place in the workplace that severely undermine its capacity to perform this integrative function. South Africa’s racial ordering during the colonial and apartheid eras created deep-seated racial divisions in the wider societal realm and the workplace. In post-apartheid South Africa the African National Congressled government has set up and continues to put in place structural measures to undo the impacts of the past political and workplace regimes. Unfortunately, some of the measures put in place result in new and unexpected problems and challenges. Thus, South Africa continues to battle with structural unemployment and critical skills shortages, which has necessitated the importation of skilled migrants. These migrant professionals, therefore, find themselves in a divisive environment in the South African workplace with limited opportunities for workplace integration. This case study of Zimbabwean engineers in the public sector of the construction industry in Pretoria and Johannesburg reveals that migrant professionals are far from being fully integrated in the workplace. They are faced with structural barriers that need to be redressed. If left unchecked these differential practices in the workplace will have negative impacts on the wider political democracy in South Africa.Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Oman, Kimberly. "Should I migrate or should I remain? : professional satisfaction and career decisions of doctors who have undertaken specialist training in Fiji." Thesis, 2007. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/8678/1/01front.pdf.
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Introduction:
Fiji is a Pacific Island nation that prior to the mid-1990s relied mostly on expatriates for its specialist workforce, and few Fiji doctors who obtained overseas specialist qualifications returned home to work. To address this problem, regional specialist training for the Pacific was established at the Fiji School of Medicine (FSMed) in 1998, and it was assumed that local training along with a non-exportable specialist qualification, would lead to improved retention. After several years, it became apparent that many doctors who started training resigned from the public service, with most migrating. While this accelerated around the time of the coup of 2000, it has continued since then. This coincided with a worldwide increase in the migration of health workers. The purpose of this study was to determine why doctors who undertook specialist training at FSMed chose to migrate or stay, with a focus on the issues of professional satisfaction and dissatisfaction. It was hoped that a deeper understanding of the situations of these doctors would suggest interventions that could improve their retention and overall satisfaction.
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The research was carried out as a mixed method, though predominantly qualitative study. The study focused on the “case” of the establishment of postgraduate specialist training in Fiji. Altogether, 47 Fiji doctors were interviewed, including 36 of 66 doctors who attained an FSMed Diploma or higher. Doctors in the public sectors, in private practice, as well as migrants were included. Semistructured exploratory interviews were carried out between 2004 and 2006 and were taped, transcribed, coded and analysed using a constant comparative method, with the identification of emerging themes from the interview data.
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The results are presented over 3 chapters exploring professional satisfaction, migration, and career pathways. A model of professional satisfaction was developed that included three major elements of professional growth, service and recognition. Professional dissatisfaction could be conceptualised as the absence of or the blocking of the elements of professional satisfaction. Dissatisfaction was particularly directed at the Ministry of Health, and a failure to reliably provide basic medications and supplies, as well as problems with career advancement, were frequently mentioned. Of the 66 doctors, 20 had migrated permanently and the 7 who were interviewed cited family security (mainly related to the coup of 2000) or spousal career or family issues as being central to their decision-making. Fijian but not Indo-Fijian doctors also cited the contributing factors of limited career advancement opportunities, low salaries and poor working conditions. Nine of these doctors entered private practice in Fiji. The four who were interviewed generally cited desires to spend more time with their families and gain control of their working lives, though frustrations with career advancement were also mentioned. No doctor who resigned cited higher salaries or improved training opportunities as the predominant factors in their decision-making. The doctors who remained in the public sectors usually mentioned a service ethic, often grounded in religious belief, as well as close attachments to family, extended family and culture. Overall, while many spoke positively about postgraduate training, most cited significant stress from managing their academic loads on top of very busy public hospital postings. Some trainees, mainly in the procedural disciplines, complained about inadequate clinical supervision. Of the 42 doctors who left training with a Diploma as their highest qualification, only 13 have remained in the public sectors. Family issues predominated as reasons for leaving training, especially time pressures for female doctors, and difficulties in supporting families on low salaries for male doctors, though some resigned in order to migrate. Of the Masters graduates, 18 of 21 (plus three current students) are still in the public sectors, some of whom still remain at the lowest career grades. Overall, doctors complained of unpredictable career advancement, with a Masters or Diploma seeming to have little impact, as well as bottlenecks from limited numbers of senior postings.
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A constructivist approach to these interviews suggested that overall these doctors saw public hospital work as an expected “norm” that offered many satisfying career aspects, while other career options were to some extent compromises. One of the few “justifiable” reasons for leaving the public system seemed to be family welfare. The blocking of professional development and advancement was cited by doctors who considered resigning, but by fewer who actually resigned. This suggested a centrality of the professional values of service, patient welfare and treating patients regardless of their ability to pay, and these values overlapped considerably with the elements of professional satisfaction. The findings from this study fit with and expand on previous research from Fiji, and also fit well with the world literature, where there was agreement on the frustrating elements of lack of infrastructure support (especially drugs and supplies), difficult working conditions, staff shortages and problems with career advancement. Salaries in Fiji are modest though arguably “liveable”, and were less of an issue than elsewhere. This study expanded somewhat on satisfying aspects of medical practice, including camaraderie, mentoring, being of service and making a difference. While health worker motivation is widely mentioned in the literature, there was at best an uncomfortable fit with existing theories, possibly related to much of the literature being focused on worker alignment with organisations, while health workers are more likely to be aligned to their professions. This study was limited by having studied only specialist doctors from a small country, and this may limit applicability elsewhere. Overall, the study suggested that retention in Fiji could be increased through improved provision of basic medications and supplies as well as through the development of transparent career pathways, through tying advancement to postgraduate training, and through trying to make workloads for trainees more tolerable in order to increase Masters completions. While in other countries the provision of a liveable wage may be more important, these interventions may also prove to be effective elsewhere in the world.
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Otu, Monica Njanjokuma. "The role played by foreign African migrants in the promotion of African scholarship in the faculty of humanities, development and social sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9597.
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This thesis is based on a study examining the concept of African scholarship through the contributions of foreign African academics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) on the Howard College and Pietermaritzburg campuses. Being branded “The Premier University of African Scholarship” the study principally set out to investigate the role played by these academics as possible conduits in the expansion of African scholarship within the knowledge production circuit. The concept of African scholarship, though not a novel term, remains an elusive category that still needs to be defined within the global knowledge economy. A cursory look at written literature around African scholarship reveals a general tendency that presents „the debate‟ much more as a theoretical engagement and less at empirical engagements that could help advance the practicalities of this concept within the different intellectual debates. Among the different pockets of intellectuals concerned with the vision of African scholarship, the African diaspora outside the continent has always played a leading role in the need to address the African knowledge paradigms within the global intellectual production of knowledge.
This study is of significance because it engages with an emerging African diaspora within the South African space and attempts to highlight how their experiences as migrants help in broadening the understanding of the African experience as a knowledge site. Using in-depth interviews within a qualitative research framework in combination with the technique of observation, the findings of this study reveal that as an emerging diaspora, foreign African academics at UKZN, are actively taking advantage of the university‟s slogan to meaningfully (re)insert „Africanness‟ in the kind of knowledge that is produced in the institution. Their contributions are measured in terms of postgraduate supervision, new research agendas, pedagogic and curricular development and networks of collaborations with other universities in Africa. Using an anthropological approach the study equally examines the implications of the attempt to position African scholarship within the global knowledge production map. The study further highlights the role that social identities such as gender, language, nationality, and race can play as epistemic spaces in the advancement of African scholarship. By engaging with these markers, the
debate advances beyond the current ad hoc manner of presenting African scholarship simplistically within political rhetoric to a more nuanced incorporation of other markers which should occupy epistemic spaces within the discourse of African scholarship.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.
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Ribeiro, Kelly Regiane. "Perfis atuais da imigração brasileira qualificada em Portugal: O caso dos profissionais de tecnologias de informação (TI)." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21100.
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A abordagem analítica apresentado nesse projeto com o tema: o perfil do imigrante brasileiro
qualificado em Portugal, não é um tema inédito a explorar, porém, o que acrescentamos como
ponto relevante nessa abordagem é justamente as épocas que definem e caracterizam cada
época como sendo única, ou seja, nessa atual realidade o que levamos em consideração é a
forte influência facilitadora das novas tecnologias sobre esses indivíduos, que os impulsionam
para progressão profissional de forma rápida e sólida, sendo eles, os profissionais das grandes
tecnologias os próprios exemplos reais do frutos do meio. Para recortamos esses perfil dentro
das migrações e fundamentar a sua diferenciação entre uma época e outra, primeiro iniciamos
uma pesquisa de referencial teórico para ter embasamento onde pudéssemos justificar o tema
abordado e posteriormente partiu-se para o campo a procura do material empírico que
sustentasse todo o contexto. Para o efeito foram realizadas entrevistas a brasileiros na região
Metropolitana de Lisboa e arredores, procurando responder quais foram as perspectivas e
contribuições do profissional de TI para Portugal. Contudo, surgem novos olhares e formas de
observarmos esse tipo de imigração, de certa forma tencionou contribuir em algum aspecto
para a exploração aprofundada da ideia que "migrar é movimentar".The analytical approach presented in this project with the theme: the profile of the qualified Brazilian immigrant in Portugal, is not an unprecedented theme to explore, but what we have added as a relevant point in this approach is precisely the times that define and characterize each epoch as being unique, that is, in this current reality what we take into consideration is the strong facilitating influence of the new technologies on these individuals, which impel them to professional progression in a fast and solid way, being them, the professionals of the great technologies the real examples of the fruits of the environment. In order to cut out these profiles within migrations and to base their differentiation from one era to the next, we first started a research of theoretical reference to have a basis where we could justify the subject addressed, and then we set out in the field to find the empirical material that would support the whole context. For this purpose, interviews were carried out with Brazilians in the Lisbon Metropolitan Region and surroundings, trying to answer what were the perspectives and contributions of the IT professional to Portugal. However, new perspectives and ways of observing this type of immigration have emerged, in a way intended to contribute in some way to the in-depth exploration of the idea that "to migrate is to move".
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Gérard, Tétreault Alice. "Expériences de reconnaissance professionnelle de sept assistantes et assistant de service social français devenus travailleuses et travailleur sociaux au Québec." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19138.
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Each year, many French professionals choose to immigrate to Québec. Among them are social service assistants wishing to pursue their careers as Social Workers in Quebec. However, several issues of recognition arise during their journey that leads them to integrating Quebec professional setting. The re-analysis of interviews conducted in the context of research project led by Pullen Sansfaçon, Brown and Graham (SSHRC 2011-2012, SSHRC 2012-2015) allows us to explore the experiences of recognition and denial of recognition experienced by seven french social workers during their professional adaptation in Quebec. The theoretical framework of recognition developed by Axel Honneth reveals that they have experiences of recognition and denial which are visible at three different level, that is emotional, legal and social. Results from the analysis highlight that to be recognized, it seems essential that those French professionals swiftly gain the right to practice, that their skills are recognized, and that they receive support and approval in their workplace. More specifically, this study stresses the importance of having the right to practice as soon as possible, the availability of training adapted to their specific needs before and during the integration into their new practice in Quebec, and being in a welcoming and supportive atmosphere in their workplace. The role of institutions around the integration of French Social Workers, such as government agencies, OTSTCFQ and practice settings are essential to put in place the conditions favoring this recognition. Overall, the participants reported they experienced more professional recognition in Quebec than in France.Chaque année, de nombreux professionnels français choisissent d'immigrer au Québec. Parmi eux figurent des assistants de service social désirant poursuivre leur carrière comme travailleurs sociaux au Québec. Or, plusieurs enjeux de reconnaissance se posent lors de leur parcours les menant à la pratique québécoise. La réanalyse d’entretiens menés dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche dirigé par Pullen Sansfaçon, Brown et Graham (CRSH 2011-2012; CRSH 2012-2015) nous permet d’explorer les expériences de reconnaissance et de déni de reconnaissance vécues par sept travailleuses et travailleur sociaux d’origine française lors de leur adaptation professionnelle au Québec. Le cadre théorique de la reconnaissance emprunté à Axel Honneth révèle qu’il et elles ont vécu des expériences de reconnaissance et de déni de reconnaissance sur les plans affectif, juridique et social. Pour être reconnus, il semble primordial que ces professionnels français détiennent le droit de pratiquer, que leurs compétences soient reconnues et qu’ils reçoivent du soutien et de l’approbation dans leur milieu de travail. Plus précisément, ce mémoire souligne l’importance d’obtenir le droit de pratiquer le plus tôt possible, de recevoir des formations adaptées aux besoins spécifiques des travailleurs sociaux immigrants avant et pendant l’insertion dans leur nouvelle pratique québécoise et d’être dans un milieu de travail accueillant et soutenant. Le rôle des institutions gravitant autour des travailleurs sociaux d’origine française, tels que les instances gouvernementales, l’OTSTCFQ et les milieux de pratique, est primordial pour mettre en place des conditions favorisant leur reconnaissance. Globalement, les personnes interrogées rapportent vivre davantage de reconnaissance professionnelle au Québec qu’en France.
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Picmausová, Ivana. "Rozhodnutí o změně pracoviště u nelékařského zdravotnického personálu." Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-434730.
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The fluctuation of nursing staff in the medical facilities is not just current problem in the Czech Republic. Aging population will present higher demand for number of nursing staff. It is assumed that the insufficient number of nursing staff will remain and even rise (also due to aging of the staff) if appropriate actions are not taken (Simoens et al., 2005). This thesis discusses the decision to migrate amongst the nursing staff - general nurses, practical nurses, midwives, and emergency paramedics within the medical facility. It analyses the reasons for changing their workplace. The investigation was executed using the questionnaire method. It was conducted in January and February of 2020 in the selected medical facility in the Czech Republic. Total of 701 questionnaires were distributed to all inpatient wards, outpatient departments and intensive care units. The investigation targeted nursing medical staff. A statistical analysis of the results was performed Mann-Whitney U test was used to monitor the differences for decision to migrate based on various characteristics and responses. Total of 415 completed questionnaires were analysed in this investigation. 61/415 (14.7 %) responders consider the change of workplace. The most common nursing staff members to consider the change were general...