{"product_id":"migrants-who-care-west-africans-working-and-building-lives-in-u-s-health-care-paperback-softback-9781978828988","title":"Migrants Who Care; West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978828988","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMigrants Who Care\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWest Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFumilayo Showers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978828988\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 September 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 5 bw images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Showers illuminates an extremely important story that needs to be told about Black populations who are doing critical support work and yet remain invisible–Black West African immigrants. \u003ci\u003eMigrants Who Care\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study of its kind.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Mary J. Osirim (author of Enterprising Women: Gender, Microbusiness and Globalization in Urban Zimbabwe) “\u003ci\u003eMigrants Who Care\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how West Africans created an ethnic niche in health care as both workers and entrepreneurs and forged a pathway to the American dream. This did not happen smoothly but arduously against structural barriers of racism, neoliberalism, and xenophobia. With deftness and nuance, Showers convincingly shows ethnicity to be both an advantage and disadvantage for migrants in pursuit of this pathway, offering jobs in ethnic-owned facilities but barriers in diverse health care settings. This book is a must-read for scholars of care, labor, migration and race.”  - Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (author of Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAs 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. This book draws attention to the reserve of immigrant labor that is called on to meet this need. \u003ci\u003eMigrants Who Care\u003c\/i\u003e tells 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. With high human capital and middle-class pre-migration backgrounds, these immigrants - hailing from countries as diverse as Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia - encounter blocked opportunities in the U.S. labor market. They then work in the United States, as home health aides, certified nursing assistants, qualified disability support professionals, and licensed practical and registered nurses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book reveals the global, political, social, and economic factors that have facilitated the entry of West African women and men into the health care labor force (home and institutional care for older adults and individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities; and skilled nursing). It highlights these immigrants’ role as labor brokers who tap into their local ethnic and immigrant communities to channel co-ethnics to meet this labor demand. It illustrates how West African care workers understand their work across various occupational settings and segments in the health care industry. This book reveals the transformative processes migrants undergo as they become produced, repackaged, and deployed as health care workers after migration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, this book tells the very real and human story of an immigrant group surmounting tremendous obstacles to carve out a labor market niche in health care, providing some of the most essential and intimate aspects of care labor to the most vulnerable members of society.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1 Moving to America \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2 Pathways and Entryways into Care \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3 The Business of Care: Ethnic Entrepreneurship\u003cbr\u003e in Care \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4 Disability Support: The Transformation of\u003cbr\u003e Immigrants into Care Workers \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5 Patient-Provider Interactions and Professional\u003cbr\u003e Identities in Nursing \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6 Nursing a Pathway to the American Dream \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Afterword: COVID-19 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Appendix A: Methodological Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Types of Health Care Jobs\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640468467992,"sku":"9781978828988","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/migrants-who-care-west-africans-working-and-building-lives-in-u-s-health-care-paperback-softback-9781978828988","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}