Migrant Health Professionals and the Global Labour Market

This book offers a fresh perspective on gender debates in Nepal and analyses how the international migration of the first generation of professional female Nepali nurses has been a catalyst for social change.

Autorentext

Radha Adhikari is a Nepali nurse and a Research Associate at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction: Nursing, gender, and the political economy of female migration in Nepal

1 Professional nursing education and the labour market situation in contemporary Nepal

2 The international migration market economy: decision-making, planning, and preparation

3 Arriving and surviving in the UK: navigating a new set of professional challenges

4 'There is a vast difference from what I had thought': professional life in the UK

5 Negotiating with new realities: family and social lives in the UK

6 Concluding discussion: professional nursing in Nepal and nurse migration to the UK