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020 _a9781978829015
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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aShowers, Fumilayo,
_eauthor.
_923396
245 1 0 _aMigrants who care :
_bWest Africans working and building lives in U.S. health care /
_cFumilayo Showers.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c[2023]
300 _a1 online resource (232 pages) :
_billustrations (black and white).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCarework in a changing world
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"As the U.S. population ages, and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has increased. This book draws attention to the reserve of immigrant labor that is called upon to meet this need. Migrants Who Care tells the little-known story of a group of English-speaking West African immigrants who have become central to the U.S. health and long-term care systems. With high human capital and middle-class pre-migration backgrounds, these immigrants - hailing from countries as diverse as Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia - encounter blocked opportunities in the U.S labor market. They then work in the United States, as home health aides, certified nursing assistants, qualified disability support professionals, and licensed practical and registered nurses. This book reveals the global, political, social, and economic factors that have facilitated the entry of West African women and men into the health care labor force (home and institutional care for older adults and individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities; and skilled nursing). It highlights these immigrants' role as labor brokers who tap into their local ethnic and immigrant communities to channel co-ethnics to meet this labor demand. It illustrates how West African care workers understand their work across various occupational settings and segments in the health care industry. This book reveals the transformative processes migrants undergo as they become produced, repackaged, and deployed as health care workers after migration. Ultimately, this book tells the very real and human story of an immigrant group surmounting tremendous obstacles to carve out a labor market niche in health care, providing some of the most essential and intimate aspects of care labor to the most vulnerable members of society"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 0 _aPrint version record.
590 _aWorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
650 0 _aMedical personnel, Foreign
_zUnited States.
_923397
650 0 _aWest Africans
_zUnited States
_xMigrations.
_923398
650 6 _aPersonnel m�edical �etranger
_z�Etats-Unis.
_923399
650 7 _aMedical personnel, Foreign
_2fast
_923400
651 7 _aUnited States
_2fast
655 0 _aElectronic books.
_93907
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aShowers, Fumilayo.
_tMigrants who care.
_dNew Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
_z9781978828988
_w(DLC) 2022057007
_w(OCoLC)1373336855
856 4 0 _3EBSCOhost
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