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Peopling Skilled International Migration: Indian Doctors in the UK
Author(s) -
Robinson Vaughan,
Carey Malcolm
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2435.00100
Subject(s) - consciousness , phenomenon , relation (database) , order (exchange) , sociology , human migration , everyday life , gender studies , political science , psychology , population , epistemology , law , economics , demography , philosophy , finance , database , neuroscience , computer science
This article uses a case‐study approach in relation to the migration of Indian doctors to the UK in order to illustrate the complexity and multi‐levelled nature of explanations for international migration. It argues that whereas, at the level of discursive consciousness, the movement of Indian doctors to the UK appears an economically driven and shapedphenomenon akin to other examples of highly skilled international migration, when the practical consciousness of participants is investigated through qualitative methods, the migration can also be seen as a cultural and social phenomenon. Although migrants move to “better themselves”, they also make choices based on factors such as the kind of novels they read as children or “taken for granted” familial obligations rooted in the everyday life of their culture.