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A funded opportunity for an international or Canadian Phd student interested in examining international nurse migration with specific reference to northern India is available through a SSHRC funded research project held by Dr Margaret Walton-Roberts at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.This project comprises part of Dr Walton-Roberts' larger research program on the nature of immigration and transnational linkages between India and Canada. A qualified PhD student is being sought out to be part of this research project to begin in Sept 2010 at the earliest. The candidate will have a MA degree in human geography or a related discipline, have an interest in the topic as outlined below, and be familiar with a range of qualitative methods including; interviews, focus groups and basic survey skills.
Despite a flurry of books and papers recently published on the international migration of nurses, there is relatively little academic and policy analysis of India's changing role in the supply of nurses for global export. Additionally, relatively little research examines the current transformations occurring in northern India, the changing role of relevant institutions, and how this intersects with household gender relations, symbolic gender politics and health governance.
This research project will critically explore these issues using the Global Nursing Care Chain (GNCC) concept
developed by Yeates, (2004; 2009). The GNCC approach provides a theoretical and a methodological
framework for understanding the internationalization of nursing within a critical feminist interpretation
of 'care' migration. The purpose of this research is to test and extend the GNCC concept in the case of
northern India using the following four objectives: 1) to incorporate spatiality and skill diversity into
global care chain analysis; 2) to trace the historical development of the GNCC in the case of Punjab; 3)
assess the relationship between symbolic gender politics and the GNCC in northern India and contrast it
to work previously completed by the PI in southern India; and 4) examine how international education
and skilled migration are intertwined in the operation of the GNCC.
Interested students are encouraged to to examine the details regarding the Geography and Environmental graduate program at Wilfrid Laurier University http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=149&p=11677
to determine if they meet the program requirement, and to email Dr Walton-Roberts with their CV and a statement of interest.
Margaret Walton-Roberts, Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Director, International Migration Research Centre,
Book review editor, Canadian Geographer
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue W.,
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
Phone: 519-884 0710 extn 2263
Fax: 519- 725 1342
http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=1057&ct_id=912&f_id=35
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