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What I like … you know we say it’s a vocation, often we say I have a heart, I’m humane, I’m affectionate … all of this is false. It’s extremely false because in cover letters it is often what is mentioned, I like older people, I like affection, closeness, I have a heart, all of this is very false. Everyone has a heart and no one has the monopoly of the heart. You have a heart, I have a heart … However you don’t do this job … everyone has a heart, everyone is humane. (Bacar, 35, Senegal, Paris)
When I interviewed Bacar in the empty dining hall of a Parisian private care home, and asked him what he liked or enjoyed in his job, he seemed to turn the question around, as if asking me: ‘Why don’t you do this job?’ As the interview went on, Bacar told me more about his life story. After finishing school in Senegal, he moved to France for his studies.
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The choice to focus on Paris is based on the higher number of non-migrant minority ethnic participants in this case study.
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Translation of ANPE, National Employment Agency in France.
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An adaptation programme consists of a mix of required professional experience and formal education completed in the UK for the purpose of recognition of the nursing degree completed overseas.
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Database last accessed on June 10, 2015.
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Eurostats statistics: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Population_change_by_component_(annual_crude_rates),_EU-28,_1960–2014_(1)_(per_1_000_persons)_YB15_II.png, last accessed February 2016.
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Original quote: ‘le rêve patriarchal ne peut se maintenir qu’en exploitant une main d’œuvre silencieuse et invisible.’
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Sahraoui, N. (2019). Entering the Older-Age Care Sector. In: Racialised Workers and European Older-Age Care. Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14397-8_4
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