Fumilayo Showers

Migrants Who Care

West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As the U.S. population ages, and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has increased. Migrants Who Care draws attention to the reserve of immigrant labor that is called upon to meet this need, telling the little-known story of a group of English-speaking West African immigrants who have become central to the U.S. health and long-term care systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781978828995
• ISBN-10: 1978828993
• Artikelnr.: 67670595

Autorenporträt

FUMILAYO SHOWERS is an assistant professor of sociology and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction 
1 Moving to America
2 Pathways and Entryways into Care
3 The Business of Care: Ethnic Entrepreneurship
in Care
4 Disability Support: The Transformation of
Immigrants into Care Workers
5 Patient-Provider Interactions and Professional
Identities in Nursing
6 Nursing a Pathway to the American Dream
Conclusion
Afterword: COVID-19
Appendix A: Methodological Appendix
Appendix B: Types of Health Care Jobs
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index