Year: 2020
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter discusses the case of the Indian nurses who take up their profession as part of a family strategy and carry it out as an individual strategy by taking up education and migration. It is important to indicate at the outset that the majority of Indian nurses come from the state of Kerala and that 90 per cent of the Indian nurses working in Gulf countries are Keralites. Today, migration offers attractive opportunities for climbing up the social ladder in accordance with the ambition of their households. Thus, nurses though physically far away from home, remain part of a ‘greater’ Kerala which extends well beyond its geographical boundaries. Objectively speaking, migration offers a chance or, in a comparative sense, a solution to these women who do not have the means or the ways to change the prevailing strict social norms that govern family life in Kerala.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Authors: Marie Percot, Sreelekha Nair
Language: English
Topic: Migration and Labor Dynamics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2595896017