CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Uguz, Muge |
|---|---|
| Title | PROCEEDING TO THE "EXIT": MEDICAL DOCTORS' EMIGRATION FROM TURKEY Profession-Based Approach to Migration Reasons |
| Summary | For a long time, migration reasons have been discussed with limited frameworks and often through ethnic lenses. In order to offer a complementary approach to the literature, I adopt a profession-based approach to examine the reasons and motivations for migration in this study. I investigate why the number of medical doctors leaving Turkey has been swiftly rising. To find out the different sets of motivations particularly applied to medical doctors in Turkey, I use a triangulation of different research methods. First, I carry out a discourse analysis of political leaders’ speeches targeting medical doctors. Secondly, I interpret the specifically designed online survey to have a broader understanding of the situation. Lastly, I conduct interviews with members of representative groups, including students/new graduates, and experienced doctors in Turkey, as well as doctors who have already emigrated and reside in Germany. Additionally, I conduct an expert interview with the co-chair of the Turkish Medical Association. In the analysis part, I focus on the reasons for migration specific to medical doctors, such as doctor–patient relations and extreme working conditions. Various motivations and amplifier factors lead medical doctors to the “exit”. The findings point to the depreciation and degradation of dignity, while the broader picture can be summarized as the absence of hope for a change. |
| Supervisor | Bauböck, Rainer; Váradi, Luca |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/uguz_muge.pdf |
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