Ciupijus, Z orcid.org/0000-0003-4278-5865, Forde, C orcid.org/0000-0001-9518-7151, Mas Giralt, R et al. (2 more authors) (2023) The UK National Health Service’s migration infrastructure in times of Brexit and COVID-19: Disjunctures, continuities and innovations. International Migration, 61 (3). pp. 336-348. ISSN 0020-7985
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit were separate yet inter-related developments which affected the British National Health Service (NHS). The UK's state-funded health sector had historically relied on migrant labour and depended on a migration infrastructure designed to solve its nursing labour shortages. The analysis of primary qualitative and secondary quantitative data shows that the NHS migration infrastructure increased its orientation towards Asia to compensate for the effects of Brexit. The paper reveals how the persistent use of temporary visas along with conditional contractual arrangements has led to various exclusions for migrant nurses and midwives. These data also demonstrate how international travel restrictions associated with COVID-19 created temporary obstacles for nurses' inflows. Alongside Brexit, this has also resulted in an increase in outflows amongst EU health workers. The article identifies the development of migrant support infrastructure amongst Filipino and Indian nurses as a major COVID-19 linked innovation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. International Migration published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Organization for Migration. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 10:03 |
Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2024 16:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/imig.13061 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:190771 |