Degrees of difference: The politics of classifying international medical graduates
Degrees of difference: The politics of classifying international medical graduates
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差异程度：国际医学毕业生分类的政治
DOI：
10.5172/hesr.2013.22.2.210
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
A. Harris
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作者：
A. Harris
大量的国际医学毕业生（img）在澳大利亚和世界其他许多国家工作，受到了媒体、政府和学术界的极大关注。这些机构利用若干分类方案对国际货币基金组织进行分类。这样的分类往往是耻辱的，但在很大程度上是毋庸置疑的。在本文中，我展示了澳大利亚img的“官方命名”，以及医院工作人员对img的命名，是历史，政治和社会产生的。在布迪厄呼吁研究分类者如何分类之后，这篇论文继续研究了img相互命名和分类的方式，并借鉴了民族志研究。我认为img在战略上使用分类，以改变他们在医院“社会空间”中的边缘化地位。这篇文章质疑了人们对img等分类群体想当然的假设，并为变革留下了余地。
Abstract The large number of international medical graduates (IMGs) working in Australia, and many other countries around the world, has received significant attention from the media, governments and academia. These institutions utilise a number of classificatory schemes in order to categorise IMGs. Such classification is often stigmatising, yet goes largely unquestioned. In this paper I show that the ‘official naming’ of IMGs in Australia, as well as the naming of IMGs by staff in hospitals, is historically, politically and socially produced. Following Bourdieu’s call to also study how the classified classify, the paper goes on to examine ways in which IMGs name and categorise each other, drawing on ethnographic research. I argue that IMGs use classification themselves, strategically, in order to modify their marginalised position within the ‘social space’ of the hospital. The article questions taken-for-granted assumptions about classified groups such as IMGs and leaves an opening for change.