Elite Migrants - Farooq, Yasmin Ghazala

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Résumé :
This book makes a major contribution to the community cohesion literature and adds a new dimension to our understanding of community cohesion in the UK. Previous research in this area has remained overly focused on the experiences of low/semi skilled migrants. The author provides an analysis of her funded empirical research that investigated the first time the integration experiences of overseas-trained South Asian doctors in three different UK geographical locales. She reflects on their experiences from the point of migration to settlement in the UK society and describes this elite group as existing somewhere between privilege and marginalisation. The book highlights how identities are more plural than discourses of belonging often allow.

Biographie:
Dr Yasmin Ghazala Farooq is a social researcher. She originates from Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. She has worked in the health and social care settings for some four decades as a social work practitioner and a lecturer. She has undertaken various research projects. She completed her funded PhD at the University of Manchester in 2014 where she subsequently worked as a lecturer in Social Statistics until 2019. Her research interests include migration, identity, ethnicity, race and health inequalities. She is particularly interested in exploring the integration experiences of elite migrants which has remained an under-researched area until very recently. She has presented her work in numerous international migration conferences. She has written research blog titled Migrant doctors keep the NHS going published at the Manchester Policy Blogs. She is also the author of two book chapters in which she documents the experiences of overseas-trained South Asian doctors in the UK which contribute towards the growing field of migration studies.