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Some potential theoretical contributions of this research

  • Exploring how a national institution was constituted through the labours of non-nationals, thus undermining the hegemony of the ‘nation’ in thinking about the NHS.
  • Reconceptualising histories of migration and racism during the 1950s and 1960s through a more nuanced analysis of class and gender.
  • Exploring processes of inclusion and exclusion experienced by migrant doctors particularly the interplay between sponsorship/patronage and postcolonial relationships/racism.
  • Rethinking categories such as ‘class advantage’ and ‘racial discrimination’ simultaneously, moving beyond ‘intersectional analysis’.
  • Exploring the material effects on doctors careers of their varying responses to perceived racial discrimination.
  • Exploring how care of the elderly can be a diacritic marker of ethnic difference for migrants and the implications of this for migrant geriatricians and the development of geriatrics.
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