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Becoming an African Health Care Migrant Worker in the West: A Case Study of Ghanaian Migrants in Columbus, Ohio

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2014, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Geography (Arts and Sciences).
The international migration of African health workers has recently received mounting attention from academics and development agencies. While much research exists on push factors of their migration in Africa and the facilitating role played by international recruitment agencies. Little is known about how Africans become health care workers in their new location, how they build and use their job-related networks and how they interact with larger immigrant communities. In an attempt to fill a gap in the literature on the international migration of African health care workers, this thesis has conducted a series of in-depth semi- structured personal interviews and observations of Ghanaian migrants in Columbus, Ohio. This research used a snowball sample method to recruit participants as well as employed a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. The findings of this research suggest that job related and immigrant community networks play a significant role in the migration of Ghanaian health care workers to the US. Moreover, these networks help to recruit other Ghanaians immigrants who are already in the US to take a career path in the health care sector.
Kim Hyun-Yeong (Committee Chair)
83 p.

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  • Lekey, F. (2014). Becoming an African Health Care Migrant Worker in the West: A Case Study of Ghanaian Migrants in Columbus, Ohio [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1399298234

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Lekey, Francisca. Becoming an African Health Care Migrant Worker in the West: A Case Study of Ghanaian Migrants in Columbus, Ohio. 2014. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1399298234.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Lekey, Francisca. "Becoming an African Health Care Migrant Worker in the West: A Case Study of Ghanaian Migrants in Columbus, Ohio." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1399298234

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)