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Dr Parvati Raghuram

The Open University, Department of Geography

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International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour¹¹⁴

Potential NHS staff from outside of European Economic Area (EEA) will shortly find it easier to secure permission to work in the UK. Yet doctors and nurses from the EEA may no longer have the right to do so. Dr Parvati Raghuram looks at how the NHS has depended on foreign workers since its creation.

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15 Aug 2018
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Gender, IT and economic growth¹¹⁴

Does gender matter to the world's fastest growing economies? Parvati Raghuram explores how the labour driving many Rising Powers is gendered.

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14 Jun 2018
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And the award goes to...¹¹⁴

In the wake of Oscar success, the film Slumdog Millionaire provokes questions of national identity.

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03 Mar 2009
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The Mumbai bomb attacks ¹¹⁴

Parvati Raghuram explains why she's uneasy at the media response to the bombings in Mumbai

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31 Dec 2008
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‘We live in a democracy’ ¹¹⁴

Watch democracy at work - as the public kept voting to keep John Sergeant in Strictly Come Dancing

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25 Nov 2008
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The Asian doctors who shaped the NHS¹¹⁴

A very British institution - but one shaped by migrant labour. Meet the doctors who shaped the NHS

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02 Jul 2008
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Valuing teachers¹¹⁴

Why do teachers get paid so much less than some other professionals?

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02 May 2008
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What exactly does 'worthy' look like?¹¹⁴

It might be useful to remind ourselves of the qualities that never come to be calculated when we take stock of our own and others’ worth to society.

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26 Feb 2008
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How national is the NHS?¹¹⁴

Parvati Raghuram traces the links between the NHS waiting lists and health care crises elsewhere

Read now: How national is the NHS?

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30 Jun 2006

Dr Parvati Raghuram's Research & Publications

Professor Parvati Raghuram (2019) Race and feminist care ethics: intersectionality as method, In Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography

Gunjan Sondhi et al. (2019) Skilled Migration and IT Sector: A Gendered Analysis, Routledge

Markus Roos Breines, Professor Parvati Raghuram and Ashley Gunter (2019) Infrastructures of immobility: enabling international distance education students in Africa to not move, In Mobilities

Jenna Mittelmeier et al. (2019) Internationalisation at a Distance and at Home: Academic and Social Adjustment in a South African Distance Learning Context., In International Journal of Intercultural Relations((In Press))

Yvonne Riaño, Christof Van Mol and Professor Parvati Raghuram (2018-05-31) New directions in studying policies of international student mobility and migration, In Globalisation, Societies and Education 3(16), Informa UK Limited

Ashley Gunter and Professor Parvati Raghuram (2018) International study in the global south: linking institutional, staff, student and knowledge mobilities, In Globalisation, Societies and Education 2(16), Informa UK Limited

Jenna Mittelmeier et al. (2018) Learning design in diverse institutional and cultural contexts: suggestions from a participatory workshop with higher education professionals in Africa, In Open Learning 3(33)

E. Kofman and Professor Parvati Raghuram (2018) Gender, Migration and Social Reproduction, Edward Elgar

Professor Parvati Raghuram, Professor Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry (2016) "Without racism there would be no geriatrics": South Asian overseas-trained doctors and the development of Geriatric Medicine in the United Kingdom', 1950-2000, University of Toronto Press

Professor Parvati Raghuram (2016) Locating Care Ethics Beyond the Global North, In ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 3(15)

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