Abstracts
Abstract
Skilled medical migrants must negotiate complex pathways to local employment in their new home countries. Accreditation and registration systems are promoted as standardized assessments of competence. To date, literature on this topic has tended to focus on organizational, political, economic and ethical issues, rather than how individuals encounter and subsequently negotiate employment pathways. We help address this gap by drawing on ethnographic interviews with migrant doctors studying and working in Australia. We find that negotiating employment pathways is a process entailing significant financial, personal, professional and emotional investment on the doctors’ behalf. We discuss the creativity and social and emotional labour entailed and the consequences of this on what it means to be a healthcare professional in the midst of increasing global worker mobility.
Keywords:
- Skilled immigration,
- medical accreditation,
- health professionals,
- recognition,
- qualitative research
Résumé
Les médecins qualifiés migrants doivent faire face à un processus complexe pour avoir accès à un emploi dans leur société d’accueil, où les systèmes d’accréditation et d’inscription leur sont présentés comme des preuves standardisées de compétence. À ce jour, les recherches à ce sujet ont tendance à se concentrer sur les problèmes d’ordre organisationnel, politique, économique et éthique plutôt que sur la façon dont chaque individu est confronté au parcours vers l’emploi, puis de la façon dont il y fait face. Cet article souhaite pallier ce manque en s’appuyant sur des entrevues ethnographiques réalisées auprès de médecins migrants étudiant et travaillant en Australie. Le parcours vers l’emploi semble requérir de la part du médecin un investissement significatif d’un point de vue financier, personnel, professionnel et émotionnel. Cet article s’intéresse à la créativité et à l’effort social et émotionnel dont ces médecins font preuve durant ce processus ainsi qu’aux conséquences de celui-ci sur la définition même du professionnel de la santé dans un contexte d’accroissement global de la mobilité de la main-d’oeuvre.
Mots-clés :
- Immigrant qualifié,
- accréditation médicale,
- professionnel de la santé,
- reconnaissance,
- recherche qualitative
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