Diversity, ethnicity, migration, and work: international perspectives

"The contemporary relevance of Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Work is evident in debates on migration, racism and the global market in healthcare workers. This book is about work and workers in the health care sector across three continents and in particular the UK, the USA and Nigeria. The book engages with the politics of health care and offers important insights into inequalities in employment and health care. It is informed by current thinking on migration, ethnicity and work, including critical engagement with the literature on diasporas, social networks, social processes, anti-racism and diversity management. The authors provide an historical and global perspective before engaging deeply with the working experience of highly qualified international migrants and low paid migrant and minority workers. They provide unique comparative and intersectional insights into the experience of migrant doctors compared to UK and US qualified doctors and deepen this understanding by an exploration of women doctors' experiences. The story of frontline low paid migrant and black and minority ethnic workers is told drawing on social processes and the means of challenging inequalities through trade unions and social networks. The book concludes with a critical and comparative appraisal of diversity management strategies."--Provided by publisher.

Erscheint: Dezember 2011.

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Working in the Health Services -- Troubles, Issues, Migration and Ethnicity -- The Health Service Labour Market -- An International Perspective -- Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Health in the UK and USA -- Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Health in a Developing Country -- The Case of Nigeria -- International Medical Graduates -- Working in a Two Tier System -- Gendered Differences in Medical Careers of International Medical Graduates and UK and US Medical Graduates -- Working in health care -- the importance of social processes -- International and Local Quality and Diversity Networks in Health -- Diversity Policies Across National Boundaries: How Health Service Organisations in the Global North are Responding to Exclusion.