Shuval J T
Department of Sociology, School of Public Health, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
J Immigr Health. 2000 Oct;2(4):191-202. doi: 10.1023/A:1009588229071.
The paper concerns the processes by which migrant physicians seek to re-establish themselves professionally in a new society. The empirical findings are drawn from a study of physicians who emigrated from the former Soviet Union in the early nineties to three different destinations: Canada, Israel, and the United States. The existential quality of the migration experience was explored by means of a set of life-history narratives related by immigrant physicians. Despite major structural differences among the three hosts, there are several important similarities in the processes observed in the three settings. The first concerns the high salience of the professional role for immigrant physicians and their determined efforts to regain their lossed status. These efforts are constrained by structural elements characterizing the three hosts. The second relates to the mediating effects of gender and age in the reconstruction of professional identity: female immigrant physicians are relatively disadvantaged as are older persons in the occupational sphere. Immigrant physicians who decide not to pursue medical licensure often redefine their occupational identity in areas that are close to the health field. Differences noted among the three groups are a function of structural differences among the three host societies.
本文关注移民医生在新社会中寻求重新建立职业地位的过程。实证研究结果来自于对90年代初从前苏联移民到加拿大、以色列和美国这三个不同目的地的医生的研究。通过移民医生讲述的一系列生活史叙事，探讨了移民经历的生存特质。尽管这三个接收国存在重大结构差异，但在这三种情况下观察到的过程有几个重要的相似之处。第一个相似之处涉及移民医生职业角色的高度显著性以及他们为恢复失去的地位所做出的坚定努力。这些努力受到这三个接收国的结构因素的限制。第二个相似之处与性别和年龄在职业身份重建中的调节作用有关：女性移民医生相对处于不利地位，老年人在职业领域也是如此。决定不寻求行医执照的移民医生通常会在与健康领域相近的领域重新定义他们的职业身份。这三组之间的差异是这三个接收社会结构差异的结果。
