Abstract

Shortage of staff in the private care sector brought migrant participants of this study to rural communities in northwest England. The care workers, fourteen highly skilled first-generation migrants, described experiences of feeling unsettled, despite residing in these communities for an average of nine years. Social divisions, such as their race, ethnicity, and gender, intersected in rural England to create an overwhelming, at times, feeling of being othered. We use intersectionality as a framework to examine the advantageous and disadvantageous positionings of migrant workers, alongside their strategies of resistance and adaptation, filling in the gaps that acculturation theory glosses over.

摘要

私人护理部门人员的短缺将这项研究的移民参与者带到了英格兰西北部的农村社区。护理人员是十四名高技能的第一代移民，尽管他们平均居住在这些社区中九年，但他们描述了自己感到不安的经历。种族，族裔和性别之类的社会分裂在英格兰乡村相交，有时产生压倒性的被他人孤立的感觉。我们使用交叉性作为框架来检验移民工人的有利和不利地位，以及他们的抵抗和适应策略，以填补文化理论所掩盖的空白。