Elite Migrants: South Asian Doctors in the UK
Elite Migrants: South Asian Doctors in the UK

Author(s): Yasmin Ghazala Farooq
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology, Migration Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Elite doctors; high skilled migrants; NHS UK; South Asian diaspora; Britain; United Kingdom; migration;
Summary/Abstract: This book makes a major contribution to the community cohesion literature and adds a new dimension to our understanding of community cohesion in the UK. Previous research in this area has remained overly focused on the experiences of low/semi skilled migrants. The author provides an analysis of her funded empirical research that investigated the first time the integration experiences of overseas-trained South Asian doctors in three different UK geographical locales. She reflects on their experiences from the point of migration to settlement in the UK society and describes this elite group as existing somewhere between privilege and marginalisation. The book highlights how identities are more plural than discourses of belonging often allow.

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