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Eyenga Onana, Pierre Suzanne. "Itinéraire erratique et mutation identitaire dans "Desirada" de M. Condé." Anales de Filología Francesa 28, no. 1 (October 20, 2020): 135–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesff.425881.
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¿De qué manera el fenómeno de la inmigración hace que los migrantes cambien su identidad psicológica, socioprofesional y cultural hasta el punto de convertirse en híbridos? Basado en la sociocrítica de Henri Mitterand, este estudio está organizado en tres partes. En primer lugar, mostramos cómo la inmigración resulta ser un escollo en el proceso de construcción de la identidad del migrante, así como un trampolín para reinventarse en el espacio extranjero. A continuación, miramos la dimensión estética que nos permite captar la novela principalmente como una obra de arte y no como un libro de texto de historia. Por último, ilustramos que la identidad, en la obra de Condé, resulta de la suma de las culturas que el migrante encuentra a lo largo de su errático itinerario. How does the phenomenon of immigration cause migrants to change their psychological, socio-professional and cultural identities to such an extent that they become hybrids? Based on Henri Mitterand’s sociocriticism, this study is organized in three parts. First, we show how immigration proves to be a stumbling block in the migrant's identity-building process, as well as a springboard for reinventing oneself in the foreign space. Then we look at the aesthetic dimension that allows us to grasp the novel above all as a work of art and not a history textbook. Finally, we illustrate that identity, in Condé's case, results from the sum of the cultures that the migrant encounters throughout his or her erratic itinerary. Comment le phénomène de l’immigration engendre-t-il chez les migrants des mutations identitaires aux plans psychologique, socioprofessionnel et culturel au point d’en faire des êtres hybrides ? Se fondant sur la sociocritique d’Henri Mitterand, la présente étude s’organise en trois parties. D’abord, nous montrons comment l’immigration s’avère un écueil dans le processus de construction identitaire du migrant, autant qu’un tremplin pour la réinvention de soi-même dans l’espace étranger. Ensuite, nous nous intéressons à la dimension esthétique qui permet de saisir le roman avant tout comme une œuvre d’art et non un manuel d’histoire. Enfin, nous illustrons que l’identité, chez Condé, résulte de la somme des cultures auxquelles se confronte le migrant tout au long de son itinéraire erratique.
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Chu, Feng-Yuan, Hsiao-Ting Chang, Chung-Liang Shih, Cherng-Jye Jeng, Tzeng-Ji Chen, and Wui-Chiang Lee. "Factors Associated with Access of Marital Migrants and Migrant Workers to Healthcare in Taiwan: A Questionnaire Survey with Quantitative Analysis." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 16 (August 8, 2019): 2830. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16162830.
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In Taiwan, migrants come mostly for marriage and work. Several researchers have conducted health-related studies of marital migrants and migrant workers, but the access of the two groups to healthcare has not been studied. Therefore, our study investigated the factors associated with migrants’ access to healthcare, with the main foci being marital migrants and migrant workers in Taiwan. A structured and cross-sectional questionnaire was anonymously self-administered by migrants recruited to participate in this survey on a voluntary basis from 11 medical centers and 11 migrant-helping associations in Taiwan between May 1st and September 21st, 2018. A total of 753 questionnaires were analyzed. The majority of marital migrants (n = 243) and migrant workers (n = 449) surveyed were enrolled in Taiwan’s National Health Insurance system (92.7 vs. 93.5%, p = 0.68). More of the migrant workers (n = 205) than the marital migrants (n = 42) encountered language barriers while seeking medical services (48.0 vs. 17.1%, p < 0.001). A professional interpreter at the point of care was considered important by more of the migrant workers (n = 316) than the marital migrants (n = 89) (70.2 vs. 39.6%, p < 0.001). Although more than 90% of the surveyed migrants were enrolled in the health insurance system in Taiwan, many, especially among the migrant workers, still faced language barriers while seeking medical services.
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Ribeiro, Joana Sousa. "Being called “skilled”: a multi-scalar approach of migrant doctors’ recognition." Migration Letters 15, no. 4 (September 30, 2018): 477–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v15i4.6.
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This article highlights the way the specific configuration of migrants’ skills relies on the relation between admission and inclusion policies, which involves several actors, time-frames and a multi-scalar integrative approach. It builds on a qualitative study which reports different scales of analysis for enhancing different actors participating in the recognition process of being called “skilled”. The study investigates how the “skilled migration” category is socio-institutionally constructed and how it corresponds to a recognition process that interplays with different scales (macro, meso and micro scales) and the corresponding actors (regulatory actors, civil society organisations and migrants). The main argument of this article is that the regulatory framework (e.g. admission policies, academic institutions’ procedures, professional bodies’ rules), organised civil society interventions and networks of power are key factors for the development of an “ascribed qualified migrant” into a de facto “achieved skilled professional”, and therefore the recognition of migrants as visible – and valued – “skilled professionals”.
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Fulton, Amy E., Annie Pullen-Sansfaçon, Marion Brown, Stephanie Éthier, and John R. Graham. "Migrant Social Workers, Foreign Credential Recognition and Securing Employment in Canada." Canadian Social Work Review 33, no. 1 (July 26, 2016): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1037090ar.
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Canada is a culturally diverse receiving country for transnational migration, and social workers are among the professional migrants who arrive in Canada each year. This article draws on findings from a four-year, grounded theory study on the professional adaptation processes and experiences of migrant social workers (n = 66) in the Canadian context. Study findings highlight a range of internal (personal) attributes and external (contextual) elements that interact to serve as either protective or vulnerabilizing factors during the pre-employment phase of professional adaptation. The focus of this article is to describe the interactions of protective and vulnerabilizing factors associated with the experience of obtaining recognition of foreign credentials and securing employment as a social worker in Canada. The findings demonstrate that migrant social workers in Canada face significant barriers in these two pre-employment phases of professional adaptation. A range of research and policy implications is identified. In particular, we highlight the disconnect that exists between Canada’s migration-friendly policies, and the lack of organizational and governmental supports and services to facilitate successful labour market integration of migrant social workers.
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Timoshkin, Dmitriy. "Migrants and Spatial Marginality in Urban Digital Media (The Case of Irkutsk)." Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review 20, no. 1 (2021): 124–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1728-192x-2021-1-124-147.
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The article analyzes “migrant” spaces created in Irkutsk by journalists and users of urban digital media. We considered professional news agencies, groups in Vkontakte, and forums as a tool for “space production” in combining many autobiographical descriptions of interaction with the city, images, and publicistic texts into an integral socio-spatial image. We were interested in how the texts’ authors of digital media integrate migrants into the “image of Irkutsk”: do they create specific “migrant” places on the map of Irkutsk? What are their features? Do the “migrant” spaces created on various digital platforms differ from each other? Does the social marginality of the “migrant” receive spatial expression? The materials were selected in the Google search engine, as well as in the built-in search engines of urban communities on Vkontakte and forums, using the keywords “Irkutsk” + “migrants” or “newcomers”. We used the method of retrospective online observation and discourse analysis. By observing the users’ dialogues and publicistic texts posted at different times, we determined which localities “migrants” and “newcomers” were placed in, and what characteristics they were given. It was found that the professional media mainly broadcasts the bureaucratic vision of the “migrant” and its location: it is associated with a set of “suspect spaces”, points of concentration of informal jobs, and are regularly “checked” by officials. Spaces are presented as marginal, do not fit into the city as an established socio-spatial order, and therefore are “dirty” and dangerous. These images move to social media where the image of “dirty” spaces and the “migrant” hiding there, as transmitted by the bureaucracy, collide with the subjective experience of users, becoming more complex and ambiguous. Thus, the “migrant” is placed in a wider range of spaces and social situations, gradually becoming a part of everyday urban life.
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Samaluk, Barbara. "Integration as a Multi-way Process." Andragoška spoznanja 26, no. 3 (October 26, 2020): 103–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/as.26.3.103-120.
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This article explores innovative EU-funded migrant integration projects which emerged in Slovenia after the 2008 global economic crisis. It stems from sociological literature that conceptualises integration as a general societal phenomenon that shields against precarity. By conducting qualitative interviews with those running the studied projects and other stakeholders, this article explores the projects’ drivers, tactics, and their impact on established institutions. The findings show that the projects were established by proactive activists who utilised EU funds to professionalise their activities and engage in partnerships to develop needs-based, cross-sectional and networked provision that empowers migrants and benchmarks professional norms and standards for migrant integration. Its specific contribution lies in uncovering a multi-way integration process that moves away from mainstream approaches to integration, which segregate and demand change only from migrants, and also includes public institutions and servants, professionals and host societies as a whole.
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Bartley, A., L. Beddoe, J. Duke, C. Fouché, P. Harington, and R. Shah. "Crossing borders: key features of migrant social workers in New Zealand." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 23, no. 3 (July 8, 2016): 16–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol23iss3id157.
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The emergence of a mobile, professional social work workforce, successfully managing the demands of service-users, policy makers and the public at large in different countries across the globe, provides unprecedented opportunities for professional border-crossing. It is timely to generate New Zealand-specific data on professionals employed in the social services workforce in New Zealand so as to inform educational and institutional responses to this complex phenomenon. A study that seeks to develop a profile of migrant social workers in New Zealand and key issues experienced by these professionals, is underway. This article reports on the first phase of the project, comprising an examination of the key features of registered social workers in New Zealand with an overseas social work qualification and a review of issues and challenges faced by migrant professionals more generally, and by migrant social workers in particular.
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Magdaalena Stamm, Margrit. "Migrants as ascenders: reflections on the professional success of migrant apprentices." Education + Training 55, no. 2 (April 12, 2013): 112–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00400911311304779.
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Kuptsova, M. V. "RESEARCH READINESS OF PRIMARY CLASS TEACHERS TO WORK WITH CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS IN THE PROCESS OF MODELING TECHNOLOGY OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF TEACHERS." Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social, Humanitarian, Medicobiological Sciences 23, no. 76 (2021): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37313/2413-9645-2021-23-76-29-34.
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The article is devoted to the results of a study of the readiness of primary school teachers to work with children of migrants. The presented research was undertaken in order to obtain information on the practical aspects of the work of teachers with children of migrants. Studying the readiness of teachers to work with migrant children in the space of a modern school, identifying and analyzing the range of problems they face in practice, is one of the stages in the development of technology for preparing future teachers to work with migrant children. The methodological idea of the research is the consideration of children of migrants as a special educational category of students, requiring mastery of special methods and technologies of pedagogical activity. The role of the primary school teacher in the process of including children of migrants in Russian society is highlighted. As a method of the study, a questionnaire survey of primary school teachers was used. The area of application of the results is the process of developing a technology for training future primary school teachers in the system of higher professional pedagogical education in order to form their readiness to work with children of migrants. As a result of the study, it was concluded that the current education system does not adequately meet the modern demographic situation in the context of multicultural education. Teachers play a key role in the process of social adaptation of a child from a migrant family, but the problem of forming teachers' readiness to work with children of migrants remains open. The problems and key factors identified as a result of the research in the work of teachers should be reflected in the development of technology for the professional training of primary school teachers to work with migrant children.
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Holmes, Seth M., Ernesto Castañeda, Jeremy Geeraert, Heide Castaneda, Ursula Probst, Nina Zeldes, Sarah S. Willen, et al. "Deservingness: migration and health in social context." BMJ Global Health 6, Suppl 1 (April 2021): e005107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005107.
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This article brings the social science concept of ‘deservingness’ to bear on clinical cases of transnational migrant patients. Based on the authors’ medical social science research, health delivery practice and clinical work from multiple locations in Africa. Europe and the Americas, the article describes three clinical cases in which assumptions of deservingness have significant implications for the morbidity and mortality of migrant patients. The concept of deservingness allows us to maintain a critical awareness of the often unspoken presumptions of which categories of patients are more or less deserving of access to and quality of care, regardless of their formal legal eligibility. Many transnational migrants with ambiguous legal status who rely on public healthcare experience exclusion from care or poor treatment based on notions of deservingness held by health clinic staff, clinicians and health system planners. The article proposes several implications for clinicians, health professional education, policymaking and advocacy. A critical lens on deservingness can help global health professionals, systems and policymakers confront and change entrenched patterns of unequal access to and differential quality of care for migrant patients. In this way, health professionals can work more effectively for global health equity.
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Li, Mingsheng, and Jacqui Campbell. "Accessing Employment: Challenges Faced by Non-Native English-Speaking Professional Migrants." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 18, no. 3 (September 2009): 371–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/011719680901800303.
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This study attempted to identify the challenges faced by non-native English-speaking professional migrants seeking employment in New Zealand. Conducted in 2007, it involved twenty-two semi-structured interviews with professional migrants and four focus groups with recruitment consultants and migrant settlement agencies. The study uncovered a range of employment barriers. Except for a few who found jobs that matched their qualifications, the greater number of interviewees remained unemployed or accepted unskilled jobs while continuing to look for professional jobs commensurate with their qualifications. Unemployment and underemployment affected both the individuals and their families, leading to loss of income, self-esteem, confidence, and marital separation. Non-native English speaking professional migrants paid “ethnic penalties” on grounds of race and ethnicity. We recommend that recruitment agencies and employers recognize the potential contribution migrants bring to the workforce and that government agencies provide information and training in the area of workplace communication to enable professional migrants to gain employment.
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Gowricharn, Ruben, and Sinan Çankaya. "Policing the Nation: Acculturation and Street-Level Bureaucrats in Professional Life." Sociology 51, no. 5 (September 18, 2015): 1101–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038515601781.
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Assimilation of migrants is assumed to happen through acculturation, which is depicted as neutral, unintended and invisible. In most accounts the role of social actors is pushed into the background, and the conditions that shape and determine the direction of the acculturation are ignored. A further critique of the acculturation concept is that the content of the conveyed culture is not disclosed nor are the outcomes hinted at. We argue that the concept of norm images redresses these criticisms by eliciting the cultural content and specifying the role of actors, that is, professionals, in the conveyance of culture. Using the example of the Amsterdam police force, we demonstrate that police officers impose crucial elements of the Dutch nationalistic discourse, specifically language and loyalty, on migrant citizens and migrant colleagues alike. Thus these police officers operate as reproducers of the social order cemented by Dutch nationalism.
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Elliott, Richard, and Erik Gusterud. "Finding the back of the net: Networks and migrant recruitment in Norwegian football." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 53, no. 1 (March 31, 2016): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690216640526.
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The intention of this paper is to analyse the role that networks play in enabling the recruitment of a group of male migrant professional footballers employed by clubs based in Norway’s top professional football league – the Tippeligaen. Based upon a series of semi-structured interviews conducted with migrants and recruiters, and synthesising concepts derived from the sociology of sport and the broader study of migration, the analysis identifies that the recruitment of migrant workers to Tippeligaen clubs reflects a mix of both formal and informal processes. Whilst agents operate as key actors in the mobilisation of foreign labour, the analysis shows how recruitments in this particular athletic context are also dependent on processes of human mediation facilitated by a series of informal interdependent networks of relationships.
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Bartley, Allen, Liz Beddoe, Christa Fouché, and Phil Harington. "Transnational Social Workers: Making the Profession a Transnational Professional Space." International Journal of Population Research 2012 (July 18, 2012): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/527510.
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This paper draws on research conducted in New Zealand from 2009 to 2011 with overseas-qualified social workers as members of a global profession experiencing both great international demand for their skills and unparalleled flows of professional transnationalism. In line with the international social work literature, this cohort of migrant professionals offers a range of needed skill and expertise as well as unique challenges to local employers, client communities, and the social work profession as a whole. With a specific focus on mixed-methods data dealing with participants' induction experiences and engagement with professional bodies, this paper argues that migrant social workers have created in New Zealand a transnational professional space that demands a response from local social work stakeholders.
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Handtke, Oriana, Lisa Viola Günther, and Mike Mösko. "Assessing the psychosocial work environment of migrant and non-migrant workers in inpatient mental health centres: A feasibility study." PLOS ONE 17, no. 9 (September 28, 2022): e0275003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275003.
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The number of migrant workers in Germany has increased over the last decades and will probably further increase in the context of a growing cultural diversity of the population and shortage of skilled professionals. Since migrant workers face different challenges, they may experience poorer psychosocial work environments than non-migrants. A negative psychosocial work environment can increase burnout and depression symptoms. To this date no study has investigated differences in the perceived psychosocial work environment in the mental health field. The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of a cross sectional study comparing the perceived psychosocial work environment of migrants and non-migrant workers in inpatient mental health centres in Germany. The study was conducted in four inpatient mental health centres in Germany using the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire. All staff members (N = 659) categorized in seven professional groups were invited to participate in the study. The feasibility of the study was determined by four criteria (1) Implementation of the study in inpatient mental health centres (2) Representativity of the sample (3) Reliability and usability of the questionnaire and (4) Variability of collected data. Three of four feasibility criteria were achieved. The study was successfully implemented in four mental health centres, the usability of the used questionnaire was confirmed as well as the variability of the data. The targeted response rate was partially met, and the total number of migrant workers could not be provided, which limits the representativity of the sample. In conclusion, a main study is feasible, but an effort must be put in an effective recruitment strategy to obtain valid results.
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Aksakal, Mustafa. "Uneven professional paths: A study on highly qualified Chinese and Indian migrants in Germany." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 29, no. 3 (September 2020): 381–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0117196820964984.
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This paper addresses some key factors influencing the career development of highly qualified migrants during their stay abroad. It is based on 44 qualitative interviews with international students and highly qualified migrant workers from China and India, most of whom were temporarily residing in Germany. The findings show that different types of social capital might co-exist and perform multiple functions. Some migrants engage in entrepreneurial activities, availing themselves of links between their country of origin and Europe, which could help them to advance their professional goals. The study found that the political assessment of migrants also plays an important role. The paper concludes that the category of highly qualified migrants is heterogenous which comprises migrants who have different aspirations as well as divergent career trajectories.
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Fouche, C., L. Beddoe, A. Bartley, and I. de Haan. "Enduring Professional Dislocation: Migrant Social Workers' Perceptions of Their Professional Roles." British Journal of Social Work 44, no. 7 (March 19, 2013): 2004–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct054.
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Vu, Thi Thanh. "Vietnamese Migrant Women Working Abroad: Risks and Challenges for Accessing Support Services." DEMIS. Demographic research 1, no. 1 (2021): 71–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/demis.2021.1.1.8.
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Today Vietnam is a country with second largest number of migrant workers in Southeast Asia. Every year a great number of Vietnamese women migrate abroad by various ways for earning a living. They might experience many risks such as labor exploitation, violence and human trafficking. Basing on qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews and focus-group discussions with return women migrant workers and with provincial authority agencies in 5 provinces in Vietnam, the article reflects the risks faced by women migrant workers and their limitation of accessing help services during the time working overseas. The study also examines the ways that Vietnamese women migrate abroad. The survey proved that Vietnamese female migrant workers generally find illegal migration riskier, but easier and cheaper because it does not require a command of foreign languages, vocational skills or costly fees. Illegal migrants do not have to sign any contracts, so they can return home whenever they want. However, illegal women migrant workers experience various risks including being captured by the police, being unable to work freely and inability to access official migrant support services. The author argues that in order to increase the ability of women migrant workers to avoid risks and access support services when working abroad, it is necessary to strengthen communication channels, which would help people to know more about reliable services to send migrants to work overseas. Trainings and professional orientation workshops before departure should include more information about possible risks and the ways to find accessible support in Vietnam as well as in the destination countries. KEYWORDS:
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Kushnareva, Anna Arkadyevna. "Opportunities of the Admission Campaign to Promote the Professional Self-Determination of Migrant-Students." Siberian Pedagogical Journal, no. 3 (July 7, 2021): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.15293/1813-4718.2103.06.
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The article substantiates the necessity to promote the process of professional self-determination of migrant-students. The analysis of theoretical research on the problem reveals the reasons that impedes this process among students in general (insufficient school work aiming at organizing career guidance, the change of paradigms from “one job for life” to the concept of “diversity”), and migrant-students in particular (the influence of external factors, “administrative nationalism”). Some real successful practices during admission campaigns, and the possibilities of using the experience of foreign universities (applicant’s portfolio, structured interview), described in the article, can significantly contribute to the efficiency of the process of professional self-determination of migrant-students. The purpose of this article is to identify the possibilities of the admission campaign to promote professional self-determination of applicants with migrant background. Methodology. The study was carried out on the basis of a set of complementary methods: analysis of pedagogical literature; generalization of scientific information obtained in the course of the study; diagnostic methods. Conclusion. The organization of an admission campaign, aiming at overcoming the problems considering the possibilities of using foreign experience, has a significant potential for providing support for the professional self-determination of a migrant student.
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Medvedeva, Olesya Dmitrievna. "Analysis of Soft Skills Implementation in the System of Foreign Language Training in Higher School." Siberian Pedagogical Journal, no. 3 (July 7, 2021): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.15293/1813-4718.2103.07.
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The article substantiates the necessity to promote the process of professional self-determination of migrant-students. The analysis of theoretical research on the problem reveals the reasons that impedes this process among students in general (insufficient school work aiming at organizing career guidance, the change of paradigms from “one job for life” to the concept of “diversity”), and migrant-students in particular (the influence of external factors, “administrative nationalism”). Some real successful practices during admission campaigns, and the possibilities of using the experience of foreign universities (applicant’s portfolio, structured interview), described in the article, can significantly contribute to the efficiency of the process of professional self-determination of migrant-students. The purpose of this article is to identify the possibilities of the admission campaign to promote professional self-determination of applicants with migrant background. Methodology. The study was carried out on the basis of a set of complementary methods: analysis of pedagogical literature; generalization of scientific information obtained in the course of the study; diagnostic methods. Conclusion. The organization of an admission campaign, aiming at overcoming the problems considering the possibilities of using foreign experience, has a significant potential for providing support for the professional self-determination of a migrant student.
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Faulkner, Christopher, Gyozo Molnar, and Geoff Kohe. "“I Just Go on Wi-Fi”: Imagining Worlds Through Professional Basketball Migrants’ Deployment of Information and Communication Technology." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 43, no. 3 (March 18, 2019): 195–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193723519836396.
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The connection between athletes and technology has developed in recent years, with the focus on how lives are augmented and presented through this relationship. Building on previous reflections concerning the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to support the sometimes fractious experiences of sport migration, we suggest a need to develop our understandings of migrant athletes’ use of ICT by interrogating socially-embedded processes driving its usage. In so doing, we draw on 18 semistructured interviews with professional basketball migrants based (at the time) in the United Kingdom but whose seasonal work moves them frequently across the globe. We explore these participants’ experiences through the lens of Appadurai’s model of scapes and disjuncture. With this framework we explore themes of negotiation, need, expectation, and barriers. Consequently, we propose expanding how we understand migrant athletes’ relationships with technology.
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Broom, Alex, Rhiannon Bree Parker, Emma Kirby, Renata Kokanović, Lisa Woodland, Zarnie Lwin, and Eng-Siew Koh. "A qualitative study of cancer care professionals’ experiences of working with migrant patients from diverse cultural backgrounds." BMJ Open 9, no. 3 (March 2019): e025956. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025956.
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ObjectivesTo improve the experiences of people from diverse cultural backgrounds, there has been an increased emphasis on strengthening cultural awareness and competence in healthcare contexts. The aim of this focus-group based study was to explore how professionals in cancer care experience their encounters with migrant cancer patients with a focus on how they work with cultural diversity in their everyday practice, and the personal, interpersonal and institutional dimensions therein.DesignThis paper draws on qualitative data from eight focus groups held in three local health districts in major metropolitan areas of Australia. Participants were health professionals (n=57) working with migrants in cancer care, including multicultural community workers, allied health workers, doctors and nurses. Focus group discussions were audio recorded and transcribed in full. Data were analysed using the framework approach and supported by NVivo V.11 qualitative data analysis software.ResultsFour findings were derived from the analysis: (1) culture as merely one aspect of complex personhood; (2) managing culture at the intersection of institutional, professional and personal values; (3) balancing professional values with patient values and beliefs, and building trust and respect; and (4) the importance of time and everyday relations for generating understanding and intimacy, and for achieving culturally competent care.ConclusionsThe findings reveal: how culture is often misconstrued as manageable in isolation; the importance of a renewed emphasis on culture as interpersonalandinstitutional in character; and the importance of prioritising the development of quality relationships requiring additional time and resource investments in migrant patients for enacting effective intercultural care.
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Kovaleva, Natalia Ivanovna, and Elena Iurevna Pryazhnikova. "Professional self-determination senior pupils from migrant families." Moscow University Pedagogical Education Bulletin, no. 3 (September 30, 2015): 108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.51314/2073-2635-2015-3-108-113.
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Actual problem is considered professional self high school students from migrant families. Research has shown that most students in this group are not ready to build and implement professional self, poorly represent the content of vocational training in their future careers. A special role in the solution of this problem is the pedagogical collectives of educational institutions.
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Pio, Edwina, and Caroline Essers. "Professional Migrant Women Decentring Otherness: A Transnational Perspective." British Journal of Management 25, no. 2 (February 27, 2013): 252–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12003.
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Sobon Sensor, Constance. "Health-Related Beliefs, Practices, and Experiences of Migrant Dominicans in the Northeastern United States." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 30, no. 5 (October 4, 2018): 492–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043659618801967.
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to describe cultural health beliefs, practices, and experiences with professional health care in the United States by migrants from the Dominican Republic because their practices are largely unknown to professional providers. Method: A qualitative descriptive design was used, guided by Leininger’s culture care theory and four-phase analysis method with a convenience sample of 15 self-identified migrant Dominican adults in three interpreter-assisted focus groups, in a familiar apartment. Results: The following four themes emerged: Stress affects health and well-being, family support and faith in God are essential, use of folk care and professional care to treat illness and maintain health, and access to care, cost, communication and expressions of caring practices affect perceptions about the quality of professional care. Discussion: Results informed development of specific strategies to provide culturally responsive care and risk-reduction interventions that promote health and improve quality of care in the Dominican community.
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Hawthorne, Lesleyanne. "Migrant engineers’ job interview performance." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 15, no. 2 (January 1, 1992): 90–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.15.2.06haw.
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Abstract More than 12,000 migrant engineers have migrated to Australia in the past four years – the majority NESB professionals of prime workforce age selected under the skilled immigration program. These engineers are currently experiencing extreme levels of unemployment – in part due to Australia’s recession, but in part due to disproportionate labour market rejection. This paper examines the critical ‘gatekeeping’ role of the employment interview. It explores the cultural attitudes a range of East European engineers bring to Australian engineering job interview questions – in particular ‘process’ questions (requiring detailed description of knowledge of engineering processes), and ‘self-promotion’ questions (inviting positive presentation of demonstrated professional skills). The paper then analyses the videotaped job interview performance of two East European engineers, who answer such questions poorly in interviews conducted by the Institution of Engineers, Australia. The paper suggests that disparities between country of origin interview strategies and those used in Australia might usefully be targeted as areas for further research. Such research could lead to more effective cross-cultural interview training, while lessening the risk of interview failure.
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Paunovic, Nikola. "Victimization of women as a consequence of feminization of migration." Temida 20, no. 2 (2017): 187–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tem1702187p.
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Bearing in mind the increased exposure of migrant women to victimization, this article analyses the etiology of feminization of migration and phenomenology of victimization of migrant women, particularly focusing on the abuse of female domestic workers and trafficking in women for sexual and labor exploitation. The main objective of this article is to offer suggestions for improving the position of female migrants by analyzing the causes and forms of their victimization. The main causes of feminization of migration include: 1) poverty, unemployment and poor economic conditions, 2) different forms of gender based violence, including domestic violence and sexual violence, and 3) gender inequality in access to education and information. In the context of phenomenology of feminization of migration the article considers as a main problem - unequal position of female migrants at the labor market, which is related to various forms of their discrimination. In order to eliminate discrimination of female migrants, it is concluded that it is crucial to improve employment conditions in countries of destination in terms of providing migrant women with the access to professional training, retraining and legal protection in case of unjustified termination of employment. On the other hand, because of the fact that female migrants are exposed to trafficking in women for sexual and labor exploitation in countries of destination, the states should provide the possibility of granting them a temporary residence permit during criminal proceedings against traffickers, in order to avoid secondary victimization of female victims of trafficking. In this regard, the main task of the international community must be a continuous and persistent struggle against all forms of discrimination against migrant women.
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Bandara, Kumeri. "Everyday Ethical Challenges and Informal Ethics Support Structures of Migrant Caregivers in Older Adult Care in England." Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Bioethica 66, Special Issue (September 9, 2021): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbbioethica.2021.spiss.11.
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"This paper builds on anthropological fieldwork I conducted in 2019 while living for over two months with migrant caregivers of older adults in Epsom, England. Caregivers’ experiences resonated with existing literature on everyday ethical challenges in caregiving: navigating divergent perspectives on good care, negotiating professional disagreements on treatments, dealing with older adults’ verbal and physical abuse appropriately, and telling older adults ‘white lies’ to avoid mental distress. Caregivers also faced unique ethical challenges because of their migrant identities: dealing with racism, conscientious objecting of certain requests made by older adults, struggling with language when following training and defending themselves against exploitative managers, and carrying the burden of being a translator to fellow migrant colleagues. Based on insight into ethical challenges unique to migrant caregivers, this paper focuses on informal ethics support systems on which migrants relied ‒ an unexplored area in the literature on ethics support within social care ‒ and explores formal ethics support systems that could support migrant caregivers in the future. Existing literature shows that the UK in general lacks ethics support systems to help caregivers recognize and appropriately address ethical challenges. The literature goes on to explore kinds of formal ethics support systems that could address ethical challenges. However, the literature completely overlooks needs and challenges unique to migrant caregivers who increasingly constitute the older adult care workforce in the UK. Understanding everyday ethical challenges and informal support systems of migrant caregivers are important steps in ensuring wellbeing of caregivers, and thus, quality of care. "
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Habti, Driss. "What's Driving Migrant Russian Physicians to Stay Permanently in Finland? A Life-Course Approach." Journal of Finnish Studies 22, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2019): 85–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/28315081.22.1.2.06.
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Abstract This article addresses driving forces that influence Russian migrant physicians in Finland to stay permanently or return to Russia in post-migration. Despite many studies on Russian migration to Finland, little is known on the topic of highly skilled migration and especially the migration process of healthcare doctors. I argue that a blend of factors incites Russian physicians to stay, and these factors affect both present and future migration prospects. Using a qualitative life-course perspective and grounded on interactive migration theories, this study provides new empirical evidence of why Russian physicians decide to stay permanently in Finland. This study adds new knowledge on an under-researched immigrant group and in a less theorized research area in Finnish scholarship. Different social markers form contingent relationships with multiple objectives and implications in the personal and professional life-course of these migrant professionals, and the strategies they employ are analyzed within the context of a Nordic welfare country that is increasingly adapting policies to attract foreign-born health professionals. The study uses semi-structured interviews to provide empirical findings and evidence. The results inform us about important interactive multi-level factors that meet these migrants' negotiated aspirations and expectations to stay in Finland.
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Christou, Anastasia, and Hania Janta. "The significance of things: Objects, emotions and cultural production in migrant women’s return visits home." Sociological Review 67, no. 3 (December 6, 2018): 654–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026118816906.
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This article draws on qualitative research in Basel, Switzerland with highly skilled migrant women from various European nationalities employed in a number of professional sectors. It seeks to contribute to the literatures on the sociologies of migration and the sociologies of everyday life by intersecting the conceptual frame of ‘affective habitus’ with the phenomenology of material culture in unpacking how emotions triggered by objects shape settling practices in host societies. The analysis centres on pathways of cultural production as they unfold through memories, objects and experiential return visits. The authors find sociological depth in applying ‘affective habitus’ as the conceptual framing to examine how mediations of memory and emotions can extend understandings of how women migrants create agentic ways to settle in new host societies while making cultural accommodations. The conceptual terrain of ‘affective habitus’ is theorised through a phenomenological approach to gendered migrancy and cultural materiality in everyday life.
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Can, Elif, Clara Milena Konrad, Sidra Khan-Gökkaya, Isabel Molwitz, Jawed Nawabi, Jin Yamamura, Bernd Hamm, and Sarah Keller. "Foreign Healthcare Professionals in Germany: A Questionnaire Survey Evaluating Discrimination Experiences and Equal Treatment at Two Large University Hospitals." Healthcare 10, no. 12 (November 22, 2022): 2339. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122339.
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Objective: To identify facilitators and barriers and derive concrete measures towards better workplace integration of migrants working in the German healthcare sector. Design: Two-centre cross-sectional quantitative online survey of experiences of discrimination among healthcare professionals with a migration history in two large German university hospitals. Participants: 251 participants fully completed the questionnaires. Main outcome measures: Experiences of discrimination and perception of inequality. Results: Fifty-five percent of migrant health workers had had at least some command of German before arriving in Germany. Members of all professional groups surveyed expressed experiences of discrimination related to language, nationality, race/ethnicity, and sex/gender. The proportions of staff with experiences of discrimination by peers differed significantly among occupational roles, with nurses and technologists having the most experiences of discrimination. The perception of inequality was reported more frequently than experiences of discrimination and had a negative impact on workplace satisfaction. Specifically, the compulsion to compete was a frequent feeling stated by participants. Conclusion: The mechanisms of discrimination and structural inequality revealed by our survey could inform specific measures, for example at the management level, to increase workplace satisfaction and attract migrant health workers in the long term.
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Dolan, Hankiz, Mu Li, Deborah Bateson, Rachel Thompson, Chun Wah Michael Tam, Carissa Bonner, and Lyndal Trevena. "Healthcare providers' perceptions of the challenges and opportunities to engage Chinese migrant women in contraceptive counselling: a qualitative interview study." Sexual Health 17, no. 5 (2020): 405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh19215.
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Background In Australia, there are many culturally and linguistically diverse communities and Chinese migrants make up one of the largest. Yet, little is known about healthcare providers’ (HCPs) unique experiences in providing contraceptive care for Chinese migrant women. There is minimal research into the HCPs’ perceptions of challenges or opportunities in engaging Chinese migrant women in informed and shared decision-making processes during contraceptive counselling. The aim of this study is to explore HCPs’ experiences of providing contraceptive care for Chinese migrant women, their perceptions of women’s care needs when choosing contraceptive methods, as well as their own needs in supporting women’s decision-making. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 HCPs in Sydney, Australia who had substantial experience in providing contraceptive services to Chinese women who were recent migrants. Transcribed audio-recorded data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Four main themes were identified, including: ‘Are you using contraception?’: the case for being proactive and opportunistic; ‘Getting the message across’: barriers to communication; ‘Hormones are unnatural?’: women favouring non-hormonal methods; and ‘Word of mouth’: social influence on contraceptive method choice. Conclusions: In order to facilitate informed choice and shared decision-making with Chinese migrant women during contraceptive counselling, broader health system and community-level strategies are needed. Such strategies could include improving HCPs’ cultural competency in assessing and communicating women’s contraceptive needs; providing professional interpreting services and translated materials; and improving women’s health literacy, including their contraceptive knowledge and health system awareness.
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Yang, Su, Tianyue Tang, Hongyang Li, Long Zhu, and Jiawei Huang. "Function Mechanism of Psychological Driving Factors and Professional Transformation: Migrant Workers to Industrial Workers." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2022 (August 31, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/9686998.
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With in-depth development of industrialization and urbanization in China, improving the professional skills and quality of migrant workers in the construction industry has become an important measure to optimize the labor force structure and promote the industry upgrading. Numerous studies have been carried out on this topic, and construction industrial workers with high skills level and professional quality have replaced the professional identity of migrant workers. However, the psychological cognitive mechanism of migrant workers’ occupational role enhancement behavior has not been fully revealed. This study aims to construct a theoretical model of the intention to influence the industrialization of migrant workers in the construction industry based on the frameworks of the theory of planned behavior and risk perception theory, and to explore the key factors and cognitive mechanisms in their transformation into industrial workers in the construction industry. Empirical study using structural equation modeling through field collection of 383 questionnaires from migrant construction workers shows that perceived behavioral control, subjective norm, and behavioral attitude all have significant positive effects on behavioral intention, with decreasing direct effects in descending order of magnitude. Perceived behavioral control also predicts professionalization through the mediation of behavioral intentions, and the newly introduced risk perception factor in the model has a negative inhibitory effect on behavioral intentions and actual behavior. This study validates the important role of psychological intention on the industrialization of migrant workers in the construction industry, providing a new perspective to promote their transformation into industrial workers, and laying the foundation for the modern transformation and sustainable industry development.
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Baraldi, Claudio, and Laura Gavioli. "On professional and non-professional interpreting in healthcare services: the case of intercultural mediators." European Journal of Applied Linguistics 4, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 33–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eujal-2015-0026.
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AbstractA debate that has revolved around the organisation of Italian healthcare interpreting services concerns the choice adopted by most institutions to employ intercultural mediators rather than professional interpreters. Intercultural mediators do not necessarily have a professional training in interpreting, they are, however, preferred to professional interpreters in that they are considered more competent in mediating the possibly different perspectives of healthcare providers and migrant patients. This preference provides food for thought for reflections on professionalism in interpreter-mediated interaction in healthcare. Drawing form a 10-year research on mediator-interpreted interactions in healthcare and a set of data comprising around 250 consultations, our contribution sets out as an attempt to clarify what is involved in this mediating work. Our analysis shows that mediators’ agency is relevant both in providing renditions of participants’ utterances and in promoting their active participation in the interaction. We describe the different ways in which mediators’ agency is displayed in interactions and the interactional constraints on mediators’ choices of action. Suggestions derived from our analysis may have an impact on the improvement of both mediators’ and interpreters’ professionalism with particular reference to facilitating communication with migrant patients, an aspect that has been recognized as highly problematic in the literature.
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Perista, Heloísa. "EU migrant women: migration, family life and professional trajectories." Papers. Revista de Sociologia 60 (January 1, 2000): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/papers/v60n0.1036.
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Pundziuvienė, Daiva, Jurgita Cvilikaitė-Mačiulskienė, Jūratė Matulionienė, and Smiltė Matulionytė. "The Role of Languages and Cultures in the Integration Process of Migrant and Local Communities." Sustainable Multilingualism 16, no. 1 (May 1, 2020): 112–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sm-2020-0006.
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SummaryThere is no denying that fact that migration is a sensitive economic, political and social issue, which European institutions together with researchers and policy makers have been working on trying to create the cohesion between migrant and host communities. It has been widely recognized that attitudes towards migrants tend to be more positive when migrants have an opportunity to reveal their linguistic and cultural diversity to non-migrants. Researchers claim that local governments and municipalities “must be part of a framework of multi-level governance” for migrants’ integration (OECD, 2017). The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highly recognizes the positive contribution of migrants, who deserve to live in a “just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world” (2030 Agenda, 2015). Existing research has acknowledged that migrants make low use of local services, such as police, hospitals, educational institutions or leisure facilities due to language barriers and uncertainty on rules of engagement (Sime & Fox, 2014), cultural barriers and issues of trust in services (Alpers, 2016) or social exclusion (Arai, 2006). In order to develop insight into the realities of integration and social cohesion between migrant and host communities in Great Britain, in 2019 this study used a survey to explore how trust and meaningful interaction between all sections of the community could be created by providing social and educational activities for migrant and host communities in Boston, the UK. Furthermore, the research aimed to answer the question whether learning about another culture could increase understanding of how one’s own culture shapes the perceptions of oneself, of the world and of our relationship with others. The research sample was a group of 18 adults of non-migrant / British communities and a group of 15 adults of migrant communities / ESOL students who were attending the language and culture sessions with professional bilingual teachers. The first research sample, for which Lithuanian, Polish and Russian language and culture workshops were delivered, was carefully chosen to represent the native residents dealing with new arrival communities in their daily lives. The interactive workshops on the English language and British culture were delivered to the second focus group, ESOL students. All members of the focus groups expressed their primary wish to learn basic skills in the target language and improve their communication within the local area avoiding social tensions, cultural and linguistic misunderstandings. To explore the needs, experiences and attitudes of both migrant and host communities, a quantitative research methodology was applied, and short semi-structured interviews were conducted.
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Habti, Driss. "Differentiated Embedding and Social Relationships Among Russian Migrant Physicians in Finland: A Narrative Socio‐Analysis." Social Inclusion 9, no. 4 (December 15, 2021): 266–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i4.4546.
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Migrants’ processes of (dis)embedding in local and transnational social networks have received growing attention in recent years, but most research focuses on low‐skilled migration. This study explores the affordances and challenges that Russian physicians, as a high‐skilled migrant group in Finland, experience in these processes in work and non‐work domains. Based on semi‐structured biographical interviews with 26 Russian physicians, the study employs Bourdieu’s socio‐analysis to analyze their narratives. The results reveal that Russian migrant physicians negotiate and experience differentiated embedding across work–life domains in local and transnational contexts. They mostly develop collegial relationships with Finnish colleagues and benefit from fulfilling professional relationships in the work domain. However, alongside time and efforts needed for building social ties, various factors often impede friendship making and socialization with locals beyond the work domain. These physicians cope with individual life circumstances through their enduring and supportive relationships with their Russian relatives and colleagues–friends. These results indicate that high‐skilled migrants have a greater opportunity to connect professionally with locals than low‐skilled migrants, but experience similar challenges to the latter in building close personal relationships.
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Iskarna, Tatang. "Redefining of the concept of a migrant housemaid in Ali's Minah Tetap Dipancung." Diksi 30, no. 1 (October 19, 2022): 13–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/diksi.v30i1.46683.
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This article explores diasporic problems faced by an Indonesian migrant housemaid working in Saudi Arabia, presented in Denny J. Ali's essay poem "Minah Tetap Dipancung" or "Minah is determined to be beheaded" (2012). This article uses diasporic literary criticism and poetry explication to reveal her tricky situation, struggle against oppression, and voice of hope concerning her profession. The analysis shows that Minah experiences disillusionment. She is oppressed, abused, and alienated because of the cultural barrier. However, Minah resists class and gender-based subjugation. Although she is helpless and determined to face the death sentence, she stands for her dignity. This poem also voices the need to redefine the concept of a migrant housemaid. Government and migrant worker stakeholders should set political will for improving the condition of migrant woman workers, especially legal protection, advocacy, and treatment as professional workers free from cultural bias in the destination country. A migrant housemaid is not merely an informal and private worker that the employer can treat as property arbitrarily. This poem advocates redefining her as a professional worker viewed from a broader cultural perspective, protected before the law, and provided with appropriate rights and advocacy. Keywords: migrant worker, diasporic problems, diasporic literary criticism, class-gender subjugation
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Basche, Jan. "Professional dilemmas for caregivers in Turkish home care settings in Germany." BORDER CROSSING 1, no. 1 (December 31, 2014): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/bc.v4i1-2.517.
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While calling for culturally sensitive healthcare services in migrant communities, the international nursing literature on intercultural care predominantly describes nursing staff as lacking cultural competences and immigrant customers as lacking cleverness to navigate the labyrinths of national healthcare systems. Congruences in language, culture and religion in the customer-caregiver relationship can decisively improve the quality of care. However, they do not automatically guarantee smooth working processes in monocultural in-home settings. On the contrary, new problems occur here for Turkish caregivers which are unknown to the legions of native professionals who feel challenged by migrants and which go beyond differences such as age, sex, income or education. While no cultural or religious brokering is necessary between customers and personnel in the given context in Germany, new challenges arise when caregivers are expected to legally broker between customers and insurance companies or doctors. Conflicting expectations of customers and management as well as their own colliding social and professional roles put the caregivers in a quandary and must be competently managed.
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Gallo, Ester. "A broken chain? Colonial history, middle-class Indian migrants and intergenerational ambivalence." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 60, no. 1-2 (December 7, 2018): 37–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020715218815728.
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The article explores ambivalence among middle-class Indian migrants who return to India after their retirement. It discusses intergenerational ambivalence from the dual perspectives of the relation between older migrants and their parents, and that linking the former to their migrant children today. Older migrants’ transnationalism is an important yet under-researched topic. It offers insights into the temporal dimension of ambivalence: how family contradictions accompany and change throughout the life course, and how they orient migrants’ understandings of the past, present, and future. Central to the analysis is the relation between migrant intergenerational ambivalence and the historical development of the Malayali middle class at home and in the diaspora. Moving beyond studies on ambivalence that mainly focus on Euro-American societies, it explores the phenomenon in postcolonial locations. The article discusses the extent to which colonial forms of socio-geographical mobility shape older migrants’ ambivalence across generations, vis-á-vis broader middle-class expectations around educational/professional attainment, reproductive choices, and care provision. It suggests that a temporal perspective on ambivalence is useful to highlight how transnational family ambivalence is shaped not only by present-day uncertainties but also by political and cultural history. It also enhances our understanding of how dispersed families negotiate ambivalence in the long term, and the cumulative effects of these negotiations in the production of novel care arrangements in the present.
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MASLOVA, TATYANA. "INTERACTION OF MIGRANT STUDENTS IN THE MULTICULTURAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT." Main Issues Of Pedagogy And Psychology 15, no. 3 (June 19, 2017): 27–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.24234/miopap.v15i3.180.
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A migrant student is a person who commits a territorial movement between settlements of one or more administrative-territorial units in order to obtain professional education. The article investigates the problems of interaction of migrant students in the new multicultural educational environment and draws some conclusions about preventing and overcoming cultural shock.
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Leinonen, Johanna. "“Money Is Not Everything and That’s the Bottom Line”." Social Science History 36, no. 2 (2012): 243–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200011780.
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This article highlights and fills gaps in research on migrant elites, traditionally defined as highly educated or professional migrants. The research on elite migrants has often suffered from methodological individualism: elite migrants are depicted as male professionals who shuttle from one work assignment or country to another, unrestricted by family relationships or national borders. My research shows the important role of marriage and family ties in life decisions of elite migrants, who in migration statistics and scholarly discussions appear merely as professionals, highly educated persons, or students. I also contribute to the recent literature that challenges the common assumption that migration is a unidirectional movement from one place to another initiated by a single motive, work or family. My research shows that in reality, for both women and men, multiple motives and multidirectional movements are often involved. Furthermore, my research highlights how elite migrants’ high social status does not necessarily guarantee privileged treatment by the host society or that elite migrants feel a part of the society in which they live. I use international marriages between Finns and Americans in Finland and the United States as a case study. I base my analysis on the 74 interviews that I conducted with American migrants and their Finnish spouses living in the capital region of Finland, in or near Helsinki, and with Finnish migrants married to US citizens and living in the state of Minnesota. In addition, I use responses to an online survey of American-born people who were living in Finland in 2008. I received 106 responses to the survey.
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Liu, Hong Yin, and Yun Fei Ma. "How Far is the Employment Transformation of “the Second-Generation Migrant Workers”." Applied Mechanics and Materials 651-653 (September 2014): 1586–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.651-653.1586.
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The objective of this discussion is to increase the employment quality of “the second-generation migrant workers”. By means of descriptive empirical analysis and theoretical analysis method, the paper conducts the research on the problem of employment quality of new generation migrant workers and the constraint factors on employment transformation. The findings show that the accumulation of income gap between urban and rural areas makes “the second-generation migrant workers” new proletarian class. Triple constraints such as human capital, social capital and psychological capital prolong their employment transformation. Dispatching employment gnaws on migrant workers’ labor rights and interests as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Social discrimination intensifies binary segmentation of urban and rural labor market. It is difficult for migrant workers to achieve professional development.
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Predojevic-Despic, Јelena, and Vesna Lukic. "Migrant entrepreneurship in the light of public policies." Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke, no. 167 (2018): 607–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/zmsdn1867607p.
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Researching the link between migration and entrepreneurship has been in the focus of scientific and professional publications in the last two decades. The results indicate that migrant entrepreneurship allows for better economic and social integration in the new environment and contributes to the economic development of both the receiving country and the country of origin. In the majority of Western, economically developed countries, immigrants are more entrepreneurially oriented than the domestic population and significantly contribute to the creation of new jobs, although they face greater administrative, financial and social obstacles in doing business. In addition, the role of the institutional context is emphasized, as well as the possible positive effect of the state?s timely response in that area. Therefore, entrepreneurship is increasingly involved in migration and integration policies of immigrants, especially in traditional immigration countries. Taking into account the growing importance of economic integration of migrants in the light of turbulent contemporary migration movements, the aim of the paper is to point to good examples of migrant entrepreneurship public policy measures, given its increasing impact on the social and economic development and the ties between the countries of origin and destination. The paper deals with examples of immigration policies for entrepreneurs, as well as integration policies for migrant population (immigrants and returnees) in the field of entrepreneurship. It emphasises the importance of regular harmonisation of migration policies with other segments of public policies, which extends the possibility for different groups of migrants to contribute to the economies of the countries of origin. In this way, a more complete basis for integration of immigrants and returnees is being developed, but also for attracting the desirable structures of potential immigrants.
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Fry, John, and Daniel Bloyce. "‘Life in the Travelling Circus’: A Study of Loneliness, Work Stress, and Money Issues in Touring Professional Golf." Sociology of Sport Journal 34, no. 2 (June 2017): 148–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2017-0002.
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This article examines the effects of globalization on the well-being of migrant professional athletes. Interviews with 20 touring professional golfers reveal that players experience many of the personal problems—such as loneliness, isolation, low decision latitude, low social support, and effort-reward imbalance—which have been identified as “strong predictors of mental ill-health” (Leka & Jain, 2010, p. 65). Feelings of loneliness and isolation developed as players were regularly apart from family and friends, and spent most of their time with other golfers whom they had somewhat superficial relationships with. These feelings coupled with, for many, uncertain income generated through golf added further to their work-related anxieties. Overall, results highlight the importance of considering how workplace anxieties and vulnerabilities impact on athlete migrants’ health and well-being.
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Bryson, Alex, Giambattista Rossi, and Rob Simmons. "The Migrant Wage Premium in Professional Football: A Superstar Effect?" Kyklos 67, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 12–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12041.
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Ramjattan, Vijay A. "Accenting racism in labour migration." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 42 (February 28, 2022): 87–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190521000143.
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AbstractThis paper concerns how speech accent accents or reinforces racism in the context of labour migration to the English-speaking Global North. It specifically outlines three functions of accent in racial capitalist systems that require the labour of migrants and their acceptance of their “linguistic deficiencies.” First, accent functions as a labour control mechanism that pushes racially minoritised migrants into low-paying work. Second, as evidenced by the language training of transnational call centre workers, accent also reinforces colonial relations between migrant workers and customers. Last, by acting as a credential that can be purchased for professional success, accent distracts from the institutional racism that truly hinders migrants’ employment opportunities. The piece concludes with some thoughts on how combatting racism in labour migration requires another type of accenting.
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Khaperskaia, A. Yu, and C. Şensin. "Learning difficulties of migrant children in Italy." Современная зарубежная психология 8, no. 1 (2019): 56–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/jmfp.2019080106.
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According to the latest report published in 2018 in Pisa every sixth pupil in Italian schools nowadays is a migrant. Statistic data show the skyrocketed increase of migrant children in schools since 2003. According to the Italian Edition of «La Verità», referring to the OCSE (L'Organizzazione per la cooperazione e lo sviluppo economico report (OCSE)-organisation for economic cooperation and development), "children with immigration experiences tend to be less successful at school than their peers. If 69 percent of Italian children achieve required by the OCSE outcomes in reading, mathematics and science, only 51% of the first generation of migrant children can match them. «This figure is even lower and falls to 36% if we take into account children who arrived to Italy and were enrolled to comprehensive schools at the age of 12 years and older. What is the main problem of migrant children at school in the new socio-cultural context? First of all, it is language. And language snowballs other problems. The traumatic experience of relocation, the difference of cultures and conflict of families with new reality, all this has an impact on the way the child feels in the new world and the way s/he experiences difficulties. Among migrant adolescents one can note a more intensive experience of internal conflicts, they face a wrenching sense of loneliness, don't feel understood and accepted. In this article, we will discuss the main learning difficulties which are most common among children of migrants, as well as the issues of professional readiness of teachers of Italian secondary schools to the difficulties of this kind
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Mota, Pau, Marc Saez, Kevin Selby, and Patrick Bodenmann. "Longitudinal panel data study of self-rated health among migrants in French-speaking Switzerland, 2003–2017." BMJ Open 10, no. 8 (August 2020): e035812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035812.
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IntroductionStudies have documented poorer health among migrants than natives of several European countries, but little is known for Switzerland. We assessed the association between country of birth, socioeconomic factors and self-reported health (SRH) in a prospective cohort of adults living in Lausanne, Switzerland.MethodsWe used the data from the Colaus panel data study for three periods: 2003–2006 (n=6733), 2009–2012 (n=5064) and 2014–2017 (n=4555) corresponding to 35% of the source population. The response variable was SRH. Main explanatory variables were socioeconomic status, educational level, professional status, income, gender, age and years in Switzerland. The main covariate was country of birth, dichotomised as born in Switzerland or not. We specified random effects logistic regressions and used Bayesian methods for the inference.ResultsBeing born outside of Switzerland was not associated with worse SRH (OR 1.09, 95% CI 0.52 to 2.31). Several other patient variables were, however, predictive of poor health. Educational level was inversely associated with the risk of reporting poor health. Monthly household income showed a gradient where higher income was associated with lower odds of reporting poor SRH, for both for migrants and non-migrants. Migrant women had lower odds of reporting poor SRH than men (OR 0.73, 95% CI 0.55 to 0.98). Migrant people living in couple have less risk of reporting poor SRH than people who live alone and the risk is lower for migrant people living in couple with children (OR 0.66, 95% CI 0.55 to 0.80).DiscussionMigrant status was not associated with poorer SRH. However, differences in SRH were observed based on gender, age and several social determinants of health.
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Haryanih, Nani. "Intercultural adaptation in the work area among professional Indonesian workers in Malaysia." Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities 1 (2018): 00009. http://dx.doi.org/10.29037/digitalpress.41236.
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<p class="Abstract">As a consequence, in the era of globalization, the migration of workers and economic flows has grown rapidly over the last decade and has become a phenomenon. Many migrant workers from abroad are employed in certain countries which lack the resources of labor. One of the countries whose economic development depends on migrant workers in Malaysia. Malaysia's dependence on migrant workers is quite high, especially for unskilled and semi-skilled works. However, in addition to skilled/ semi-skilled workers, there are many skilled workers working in Malaysia. They usually work in areas which require expertise or special skills, one of them is in the IT (Information Technology) sector. The purpose of this paper is to study the process of inter-cultural adaptation that occurs in Indonesian professional workers currently working in Malaysia, especially the adaptation process that occurs in their multicultural workplace. This study uses a qualitative methodology of 10 Indonesian professional workers in Malaysia, in particular, working on Nokia Siemens Networks Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia. By conducting research with the qualitative method, the result is the cultural diversity in Malaysia and in the work area of respondents, does not seem to be a big problem for them.<o:p></o:p></p>