“We Wanted To End Disparities at Work”: Physician Migration, Racialization, and a Struggle for Equality

Bhalla, Vibha

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“…In the context of increasing USMG numbers, national physician leaders started to ask questions about how to limit IMG migration and put pressure on Congress to enact yet more restrictive legislation. This time, though, investigators explored the implications on American health care of removing this source of physician labour, particularly for underserved patient populations (Bhalla, 2010). In 1995, two representatives of the Association of American Medical Colleges looked at the high number of IMGs who were involved in the care of the poor, including those in psychiatric hospitals (Whitcomb and Miller, 1995).…”

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Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry

Hirshbein

2022

Hist Psychiatry

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Graduates from foreign medical schools (FMGs) began to staff US state psychiatric hospitals after World War II, and became increasingly associated with the poor quality of those institutions. Public and professional commentary on FMGs criticized their skills and suitability for the US healthcare system in the 1970s, at the same time that state hospitals were under increasing attack. By the 1980s and 1990s, the association between international medical graduates (as they became known) and underserved populations became an argument in favour of easing restrictions on these graduates. The role of foreign-trained psychiatrists in the US public sector became a way for American psychiatry leaders to manage the problems of the seriously mentally ill, first with blame and then with neglect.

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Section: Valued But Often Malignedmentioning

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Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry

Hirshbein

2022

Hist Psychiatry

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“…Many of the reasons that mobilize individuals or families to relocate are, as Ibrahim and Heuer (2015) argue, external. Once established in the new living space, the external arguments, resolved or not, enter intensify dialogue with the internal ones, which prove to be more sound and sensitive (Bhalla, 2010;Straut-Eppsteiner, 2017;Wilson, 2002).…”

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Breaking Stereotypes Concerning Remigrated Children - A Multinational Possible Intervention Plan through School

Popa

2021

LUMEN Proceedings

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The article is based on a multinational study involving five countries (Romania, Portugal, Italy, North Macedonia, and Iceland) facing the return migration or remigration situation. Pupils (n = 1615), teachers (n = 370), future teachers (n = 166) and youth workers (n = 30) were questioned about various aspects regarding the subject. Among the matters, cultural needs appear to the most important. Based on the statistical analysis, the article describes the dynamics of the dependent variables, with highlighted interest on cultural needs. Psychological and social needs, cultural needs, and educational needs are discussed and link conclusions appear. Following the analysis, an intervention plan is built and tailored activities for teachers are proposed. Breaking stereotypes is a sensitive aspect of the intervention for the integration of remigrated children in the country of origin. The paper presents a possible intervention plan, with the elaborated activities and argues the elaborative process by calibrating each interference with the dynamics of the studied variables.

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Indian emigration, 1947 to present

Bhalla¹

2013

The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

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Large‐scale migration from India began in 1947 after India's independence from the United Kingdom. A substantial proportion of Indian migrants are highly educated, skilled professionals in science‐based fields, especially physicians, engineers, and computer scientists, who have migrated to economically developed nations, predominantly the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Since the 1970s, semiskilled and unskilled workers have also been migrating to the oil‐producing countries in the Middle East. The two migrant flows vary immensely: migrants to the developed nations have the right to citizenship and family reunification and consequently have settled permanently in these nations. In sharp contrast, migration to the Middle East nations is predominantly temporary, and composed primarily of men who rarely have the right to migrate with their families. The largest number of Indian migrants can be found in the United States (1,678,765), the United Kingdom (1,200,000), Canada, (851,000), and Australia (190,000). Indian migrants to the Middle East are predominantly in Saudi Arabia (1,500,000), followed by the United Arab Emirates (950,000), Oman (312,000), Kuwait (295,000), Qatar (131,000), and Bahrain (312,000).

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“We Wanted To End Disparities at Work”: Physician Migration, Racialization, and a Struggle for Equality

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry

Foreign medical graduates and American psychiatry

Breaking Stereotypes Concerning Remigrated Children - A Multinational Possible Intervention Plan through School

Indian emigration, 1947 to present

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