Making and maintaining racialised ignorance in Australian nursing workplaces: The case of black African migrant nurses

Mapedzahama, Virginia; Rudge, Trudy; West, Sandra; Kwansah-Aidoo, Kwamena

doi:10.22160/22035184/aras-2018-39-2/48-73

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“…These rejections and assumptions were commonplace experiences for participants, taken‐for‐granted (but not necessarily accepted) elements of interactions with colleagues and clients. They drew upon and reinforced socio‐cultural understandings of Africans as unknowing, deficient, and incompetent (Mapedzahama et al., 2018), in turn, linked to a broadly defined “Africa” and its assumed backwardness and under‐development (Mapedzahama & Kwansah‐Aidoo, 2010).…”

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“…They drew upon and reinforced socio-cultural understandings of Africans as unknowing, deficient, and incompetent (Mapedzahama et al, 2018), in turn, linked to a broadly defined "Africa" and its assumed backwardness and under-development (Mapedzahama & Kwansah-Aidoo, 2010).…”

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“…Race or ethnicity is relevant primarily in terms of migrant workers' ability to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse clients (Isherwood & King, 2017) or as the reason for perceived shortfalls in workers' capacities (Adamson, Cortis et al., 2017; Mavromaras, Knight et al., 2017). In commentary on Australian care contexts, including aged care, race/ethnicity is commonly discussed with reference to migrant workers' deficits (Mapedzahama et al., 2018) and workers' experiences of racism are downplayed or ignored (Mapedzahama et al., 2012).…”

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Everyday racism and the denial of migrant African women’s good caring in aged care work

Olasunkanmi-Alimi

Natalier

Mulholland

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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There is, in the global north, a "care crisis," a shortfall in the capacity to provide care for an aging population. Migrant care workers have been positioned as a solution to this crisis, but this positioning sits in tension with research highlighting the widespread racism that questions or denies the skills and commitment of migrant care workers. This study draws on the experiences of 30 migrant African women working in the Australian aged care sector to interrogate the implications of this tension. The authors describe how everyday racism perpetrated by clients and colleagues denied the possibility that migrant African women carers were able or welcome to undertake "good caring." Applying Tronto's conceptualization of caring as relational, the authors argue that everyday racism symbolically denies African migrant women's participation in key phases of the caring process: "caring about," "caregiving," and "care-receiving." Everyday racism thus rejects migrant African women's care work at the individual level and reinforces care as a set of practices and dispositions that are unavailable to them.

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Everyday racism and the denial of migrant African women’s good caring in aged care work

Olasunkanmi-Alimi

Natalier

Mulholland

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Research shows that access to health and healthcare are directly associated with an individual’s race and ethnicity (Richardson and Norris 2010 ). While cultural and social barriers can prevent these groups from optimally accessing healthcare (Colucci et al 2015 ), antipathy towards workplace diversity (Johnstone and Kanitsaki 2008b ), systemic native ignorance (Mapedzahama et al 2018 ), and race-related intersectional factors (Bastos, Harnois, and Paradies 2018 ) are also among the key institutional barriers in healthcare affecting migrants and refugees in Australia.…”

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The Costs of Institutional Racism and its Ethical Implications for Healthcare

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Paradies

2021

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“…These challenges have included communication and cultural barriers, underutilisation of their skills and experiences of racial discrimination. 16,[19][20][21][22] This paper reports on data that relates to the early migration experiences which were part of a broader study that was investigating the overall experiences of sub-Saharan African overseas qualified nurses working in rural Australia.…”

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“It’s only the skin colour, otherwise we are all people”: the changing face of the Australian nurse

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O’Brien²,

Anderson

2021

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The aim of this paper is to report on the experience of racial discrimination by black sub-Saharan overseas qualified nurses working in rural Australia. Background:The arrival of black African people as skilled professional migrants is relatively new in rural Australia. The presence of black sub-Saharan African nurses in Australian healthcare facilities is changing the face of the Australian nurse. Australia, like other developed countries, has been receiving migrant nurses from the African continent in a bid to reverse its critical nurse shortage. Literature has shown that globally, overseas qualified nurses of colour have encountered work challenges that have included racial discrimination. study design and methods: A qualitative hermeneutical phenomenological approach was used. Eighteen nurses were purposively selected using personal invite and a snowballing technique. Data collection involved individual face to face interviews and a focus group discussion. results:The exploration of experiences revealed issues of race and colour among colleagues and between patients and overseas qualified nurses. Overseas qualified nurses experienced incidents of discrimination based on race and skin colour from their colleagues and patients. They felt unwelcome, not trusted and undervalued. They adopted various coping strategies to adjust to being seen differently. Discussion:The literature suggests that overseas qualified nurses tend to be discriminated against in their destination countries. In this paper the migration experience of black sub-Saharan African overseas qualified nurses has shown the power of welcoming people to their new country, the existence of discrimination by race at their healthcare facilities as well as showing the importance of trust and teamwork at the workplace. The study has also shown the resilience of black sub-Saharan African overseas qualified nurses in their time of adversity. conclusion: There are pockets of racial discrimination that need to be checked within the Australian healthcare system. These undermine the confidence of overseas qualified nurses in their professional practice. implications for research, policy and practice:The results provided insight into the existence of racism within the workplace. Black African nurses need to feel safe in their workplace and need more support to facilitate their integration.

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Making and maintaining racialised ignorance in Australian nursing workplaces: The case of black African migrant nurses

Cited by 41 publications

References 21 publications

Everyday racism and the denial of migrant African women’s good caring in aged care work

Everyday racism and the denial of migrant African women’s good caring in aged care work

The Costs of Institutional Racism and its Ethical Implications for Healthcare

“It’s only the skin colour, otherwise we are all people”: the changing face of the Australian nurse

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