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1	Costs and rewards of physician migration: comparing US and Swedish models Hedlund, Selma Linnea 11 May 2023 (has links) The fact that many OECD countries are reliant on international medical graduates (IMGs) to serve their most vulnerable has become even more apparent in the wake of Covid-19. This dissertation examines the role that nation brands play on the international physician labor market and how visa regimes and migration industries shape IMG pathways to Sweden versus US; two widely different societies where around a third of all doctors are IMGs. The US and Sweden represent two different approaches to addressing the same problem — solving a shortfall of healthcare providers, especially in rural areas populated by ethnic minorities and low-income families. While many Swedish regions actively attempts to facilitate the incorporation of IMGs through an intra-European physician recruitment industry, the US seem to rely on the attraction of its political economy and has done little to modify the substantial financial and visa-related obstacles that IMGs face. As a high-skilled immigrant group, immigrant physicians occupy a complex position of advantage and disadvantage; they are privileged in comparison to low-income migrant workers and unauthorized immigrants, yet face more barriers in comparison to domestic physicians, and are often informally sorted into less prestigious positions. This study centers the two largest immigrant physician groups in each country: Indians in the US and Poles in Sweden. The experiences of these labor migrants are triangulated against a third IMG group that have undergone the asylum process in order to reach their host societies — Iraqis. / 2025-05-11T00:00:00Z Sociology Context of reception Doctors Immigrant incorporation Migration industry Nation brand Visa regime
2	Discrepancies in European Union policies towards illegal immigration : The securitisation of the visa-overstayer and the irregular migrant Hansen, Frida January 2020 (has links) Visa-liberalisation agreements are commonly used as an incentive by the EU to encourage cooperation within the realm of border and migration management with its neighbouring countries. The ultimate aim of these agreements is to reduce irregular migration to Schengen territory, something that has been percieved as an increasingly urgent issue for European policy makers in the wake of the 2015 'migration crisis'. However, the use of visa liberalisation agreements in such a fashion appears contradictory considering that most irregular migrants in the EU most likely are visa-overstayers. This essay takes of in this apparent puzzle and argues that securitisation theory might help us better understand this discrepancy. While the construction of the migrant as a security threat in Europe has been thoroughly examined, differences in securitisation between grups of irregular migrants are often left out of the discussion or only implicitly mentioned. By examining the discourse and practices of a central EU agency in regard to border and migration management, FRONTEX, this thesis shows that visa-overstayers are routinely left out of the securitised discussion on irregular migration, thus rendering EU policies asymmetrically occupied with irregular migration by means of 'illegal entry'. However, the thesis also uncovers a more conplex set of ideas that show that although visa-overstayers are not conceptulised as threats to security in discourse on par with other categories of irregular migrants, visa-goers and other travellers are, too, incresingly subjected to a rationale of survaillance and risk. Securitisation Migration The European Union Visa-overstaying Schengen Irregular immigration Illegal immigration The Schengen Visa Regime Visa Externalisation FRONTEX Irregular border crossings Säkerhetisering Migration Europeiska Unionen Visa-overstayer Visum Schengen Irreguljär migration Illegal immigration Externalisering FRONTEX Political Science Statsvetenskap
3	Sojourners in the Country of Freedom and Opportunity: The Experiences of Vietnamese Women with Non-immigrant Dependent Spouse Visas in the United States Tran, Thi Hai Ly 20 May 2021 (has links) No description available. American Studies Asian American Studies Skilled migration gender and migration accompanying spouses visa regime housewifization social integration globalization gender studies critical race studies postcolonial studies Asian American Studies Vietnamese studies

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