Filipino nurse migration to the UK: understanding migration choices from an ontological security-seeking perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 113881
Author(s):  
M. David ◽  
Nicola Gillin
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Security ◽  
Nurse Migration ◽  
The Uk

Applying heuristic inquiry to nurse migration from the UK to Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Vafeas ◽  
Joyce Hendricks
Keyword(s):  
Heuristic Inquiry ◽  
Nurse Migration ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Applying for Settled Status: Ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-385
Author(s):  
Kate Botterill ◽  
Mariusz Bogacki ◽  
Kathy Burrell ◽  
Kathrin Hörschelmann
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

This article contributes to scholarship concerning the effects of the UK Referendum on EU membership and Brexit on EU citizen rights in the UK (Botterill, McCollum and Tyrrell, 2018 ; Burrell and Schweyher, 2019 ; Gawlewicz and Sotkasiira, 2019 ; Huber, 2019 ). The paper focuses on applications for, and meanings of, ‘settled status’ among Polish nationals living in urban and rural Scotland. In particular we argue that the ‘simple’ act of application produces diverse responses among Polish nationals, characterised by ambivalent and reluctant compliance, with longer term implications for ontological security and sustainable communities. In the paper we present empirical data from the perspectives of three differently positioned individuals to illustrate the heterogenous experience of Polish nationals in Scotland and to demonstrate how pre-existing vulnerabilities and conditions are compounded by the EU settlement scheme. First, we highlight a view of citizenship as ‘social contract’ through the vignette of Marek who expresses ambivalence about Brexit and for whom the welfare system serves both as a safety net and a space of the undeserving. Second, we reflect on the complex bureaucratic process of gaining citizenship for a family, through the vignette of Monika. Finally, we consider how form filling is an anxious act of validating oneself and questioning one's belonging to place with longer term effects on ontological insecurity, through the vignette of Weronika. We conclude by offering a set of recommendations for Scottish policy on intercultural communication, integration and sustainable communities that, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, is ever more significant.

scholarly journals Examining transnational care circulation trajectories within immobilizing regimes of migration: Implications for proximate care

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Merla ◽  
Majella Kilkey ◽  
Loretta Baldassar
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Variable Impact

In this paper we argue that the current political context of restrictionist migration policies is dramatically affecting people’s capacity to cross borders to engage in proximate care with their relatives, which is a central, yet often overlooked, feature of transnational care practices. We examine how the wider context of temporality, restrictive mobility, and heightened uncertainty about the future affect people’s ability to be mobile and to move back and forth for caregiving. In examining the wellbeing effects of such restrictions, we highlight their variable impact depending on factors such as socio-economic positioning, life-course stage and health. The first sections of the paper present the care circulation framework and the particular meaning and function of proximate forms of care, as well as the main categories of care-related mobility that support this. We illustrate the dynamics and challenges faced by transnational family members, who engage in these care-related mobilities, through three vignettes involving care circulation between India and the UK, China and Australia, and Morocco and Belgium. In the final section, we discuss our vignettes in relation to the political, physical, social and time dimensions of current regimes of mobility that impact on care-related mobilities. We argue that the regimes of mobility that currently govern care-related mobilities are best understood as ‘immobilizing regimes’ with important and undervalued implications for ontological security and wellbeing.

scholarly journals Nurse migration in Australia, Germany and the UK: A rapid evidence assessment of primary research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Smith
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Methodological Quality ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Nursing Workforce ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Nurse Migration ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Communication Competencies ◽  
The Uk

Aim To examine existing primary research on nurse migration, including educational needs and initiativesBackground Nurse migration is a common strategy used to address nursing workforce needs.Introduction Agreements exist between countries to facilitate nurse migration, however, it is unclear how nurse migrants have contributed to developing the data on which these arrangements are based.Methods We conducted a rapid evidence assessment to review the available primary research data. The search strategy looked for sources that involve, was developed with or franchises migrant nurses. The papers included were assessed for methodological quality using the SRQR and CONSORT checklists.Findings The primary research data retrieved produced 4 main themes; migrant nurses are not clearly defined in research, discrimination is often reported by migrant nurses, language and communication competencies are important and structured integration programmes are highly valued by migrant nurses and destination healthcare employers.Discussion The findings show that migrant nurses are disenfranchised in primary research in healthcare and this is congrunent with wider reports of discrimination. Structured integration programmes improve the experience of migrant nurses.Conclusion There is a strong evidence for including migrant nurses in all aspects of research.Implications for Nursing Policy This has implications for policy because ethical and sustainable nurse migration relies on including nurse migrants in data.

Vicarious Identity in International Relations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Browning ◽  
Pertti Joenniemi ◽  
Brent J. Steele
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Interstate Relations ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Uk

This book theorizes and problematizes the politics of vicarious identity in international relations, where vicarious identity refers to processes of “living through the other.” While prevalent and recognized in family and social settings, the presence and significance of vicarious identification in international relations has been overlooked. Vicarious identification offers the prospect of bolstering narratives of self-identity and appropriating a sense of reflected glory and enhanced self-esteem, but insofar as it may mask and be a response to emergent anxieties, inadequacies, and weaknesses it also entails vulnerabilities. The book explores both its attraction and potential pitfalls, theorizing these in the context of emerging literatures on ontological security, status, and self-esteem, highlighting both its constitutive practices and normative limits and providing a methodological grounding for identifying and studying the phenomenon in world politics. Vicarious identification and vicarious identity promotion are shown to be politically salient and efficacious across a range of scales, from the international politics of the everyday evident, for instance, in practices associated with (militarized) nationalism, through to interstate relations. In regard to this latter the book provides case analyses of vicarious identification in relations between the United States and Israel, the UK–US special relationship, and between Denmark and the United States, and it develops a framework for anticipating the conditions under which states may be more or less tempted into vicarious identification with others.

scholarly journals Gritty citizens? Exploring the logic and limits of resilience in UK social policy during times of socio-material insecurity

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Donoghue ◽  
Daniel Edmiston
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Financial Hardship ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Productive Potential ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Current

In recent years, resilience has been invoked as both a pre-emptive and responsive strategy to tackling socio-material insecurity. This article outlines a number of discursive and administrative features that distinguish the rise of resilience from longer-term shifts towards ‘active citizenship’ in British social policy. We use data from two studies of financial hardship to examine how the fetishised ideal of resilience is reified and negotiated in the everyday experiences of low-income citizens. We argue that resilience is practised as ‘a way of being’, but in contorted ways that reflect restrictions to agency, resources and autonomy. This article makes an original contribution by exposing a current paradox within resilience as a governing agenda: it is principally pursued in ways that compromise the material and ontological security necessary for its productive potential. The article concludes by reflecting on what conceptual and applied agendas this presents for policymakers, practitioners and academics in the UK and further afield.

Security in Pension Provision: A Critical Analysis of UK Government Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICK JOHN RING
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk

The Labour government has often argued that it is attempting to find a ‘third way’ in politics, appearing to take its inspiration from Anthony Giddens and, in relation to Labour's pensions policy, Giddens' notion of ‘positive welfare’.Noting that the government maintains that ‘pensions are all about security’, and that it has declared the importance of this position throughout its reform of UK pension provision, this article critically examines the nature of the ‘security’ its reform is likely to deliver. Using the work of Giddens, it notes the importance of the concept of ontological security, and the relevance of trust to security. From this basis, and drawing upon the work of both Giddens and Niklas Luhmann, it goes on to consider whether the government's reforms of the three pillars of pension provision in the UK – state provision, occupational provision and personal provision – are capable of delivering greater security in pension provision.It concludes that, quite apart from the potential criticisms of the conception of positive welfare itself, the government's apparent adoption of such an approach has failed to appreciate adequately the importance of ontological security to any understanding of welfare. As a consequence, it is suggested that the practical outcome is reform that is likely to create much less security in pension provision than either Giddens' approach, or indeed regular government pronouncements, might suggest.

scholarly journals Nurse migration in Germany, the UK, and Australia: a comparative situation analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ewers ◽  
J Smith ◽  
Z Tomkins ◽  
R Woodward-Kron
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Routine Data ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
Nurse Migration ◽  
Reporting Systems ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Background Nurse migration is increasingly seen as an appropriate response to address nursing shortages in overburdened health systems. This paper aims to analyse the situation in Germany, the UK and Australia and identify similarities and differences in the dimensions, perceptions and processing of nurse migration in different health systems. Methods A rapid evidence assessment and comparative situation analysis of routine data obtained from public health, education and labour market reporting systems, and academic and grey literature were carried out in Jan-Feb 2020. Primary outcome measures were key data of nurse population and migration, barriers and opportunities, and educational initiatives to support migrating nurses to meet the requirements to work in the destination country. Results Germany, the UK and Australia are confronted with an ageing and increasingly chronically ill population and severe nursing shortages. Skilled migration is seen as an opportunity to address these problems, but each country is faced with different contextual conditions and requirements. Data on the nurse workforce obtained from public health, educational and labour market reporting systems are more differentiated and extensive in the UK and Australia than in Germany. Furthermore, there is a substantial amount of published literature in the UK (n = 65) and Australia (n = 87) on nurse migration and on how the countries address challenges in this area; in comparison to the German context, where such research is limited (n = 7). Available research focuses on the economic, epidemiological and geographical impact and distribution of nurse migration. Qualitative dimensions and educational requirements are less well discussed. Conclusions Evidence on nursing migration is strongly based on quantitative factors and may not reflect current needs. More information about qualitative aspects of nurse migration is required to develop recommendations that support enhanced nursing workforce migration. Key messages Nurse Migration presents many challenges that have not yet been fully researched. Results of a comparative analysis of three countries offer the opportunity to highlight missed opportunities.

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