Gender and Migration: Education, Family and Social Mobility among Caribbean Nurses

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PROJECT IS COMPLETED
Project period: January 2010 - March 2015

During the past decades there has been increasing awareness that women not only migrate as dependents to join husbands or fathers abroad, but play a central role as migrants in their own right.

So far, much of the literature has focused on migrant women who are engaged in domestic work or care work, predominant forms of employment among unskilled migrant women. Furthermore, studies have examined the problems of gender and racial discrimination associated with this type of work.

This research project focused on women who migrate for the purpose of further education. More specifically, it looked at Caribbean women who migrated to Britain during the 1950’s, 1960s and 1970’s in order to receive training in nursing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The project was funded by:

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Gender and Migration received funding from the Carlsberg Foundation and Aksel Tovborg Jensens legat.

Project: Gender and Migration: Education, Family and Social Mobility among Caribbean Nurses
Principal investigator: Karen Fog Olwig
Start: January 2010
End: March 2015