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aroticv · 2 years

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Can I move to Canada without a job?

Some people who want to migrate to Canada will be able to do so without needing a work offer from a Canadian business. Although there are several immigration options to Canada, the vast majority of them do require a work offer to be accepted.

It is often advised to the immigrants entering the Express Entry pool to get a job offer before moving to Canada when emigrating to Canada as skilled workers in order to increase their CRS Score. You might be interested in your alternatives if you’d want to wait until you’ve settled in Canada before accepting a job offer. If you are looking for Visa consultancy in Nehru place then contacting Arotic Visa is the best choice.

Programs for Express Entry Without a Job Offer

Applying for Express Entry Programs is the greatest alternative for those who want to immigrate to Canada but don’t have a work offer. Express Entry is a point-based system for managing candidates applying for permanent residency for individuals who can fill occupations when there is a shortage of qualified Canadian workers. The Express Entry pool’s programmes that permit you to apply for immigration without having a work offer include:

Program for Federally Skilled Workers (FSW)

One of three Express Entry pathways that allows for employment in Canada is the Federal Skilled Worker Program. The FSW is intended specifically for skilled employees with significant educational background and work experience.

Federal Skilled Trade Program

The Federal Skilled Trades Program is for qualified professionals who desire to immigrate to the United States permanently.

Canadian Experience Class (CEC)

People who have worked or studied in Canada are eligible to apply to become permanent residents under the Canadian Experience Class.

Additional Immigration Options Provincial Nominee Programs

For those without a job offer, certain of Canada’s Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs) may be a possibility. PNPs that are included include:

Program for Provincial Nominees in Ontario (OINP)

The PNP programme in Ontario offers multiple streams that let qualified immigrants move there before receiving a job offer.

Program for Provincial Nominees in Saskatchewan (SINP)

Among the many streams functioning under the SINP, there are two particularly active provincial nomination streams that do not require employment offers. The first is the Saskatchewan

Nova Scotia Provincial Nominee Program (NSPNP)

Express Entry-linked stream, for which applicants must have an active profile in the federal Express Entry programme in order to submit an application.

The crucial stream for obtaining the Nova Scotia Provincial Nomination without a job offer is the Nova Scotia Demand Express Entry (Category B) of the Nova Scotia Provincial Nominee Program (NSPNP).

Investor Program

There is also the Canadian Investor Program category, where you may be eligible for immigration without a job depending on your net worth and business experience.

Apply for a job in Canada after obtaining PR

After receiving approval for PR, you can apply for jobs in Canada. Typically, your medical certificate, which you provided as part of your Canadian PR visa application process, must still be current in order for your visa to be valid. Additionally, the medical certificate’s validity period typically lasts for 12 months.

Therefore, you must relocate to Canada within this time frame or the PR approval will expire. You can search for and accept a suitable job offer in Canada during the twelve months you have after arriving there.

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xhxhxhx · 6 years

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The England of the East

On the morning of May 27, 1905, a small Japanese fleet met the Russian Baltic Fleet as it steamed into the Straits of Tsushima. Seven months earlier, the tsar had ordered the fleet to leave its base at Kronstadt. Now, halfway around the world, it was exhausted, demoralized, and in desperate need of supplies. The Russians made a last, desperate dash for Vladivostok. They never made it. By the following morning, the Japanese had destroyed six Russian battleships and captured the other two, and they had not lost a single ship. Five thousand Russian sailors were taken prisoner.

At the peace conference at Portsmouth, the Japanese won the Liaotung Peninsula, the South Manchurian Railroad Company’s rights in Manchuria, South Sakhalin, and recognition for Japan’s paramount interests in Korea. No longer would Russia trouble the Japanese in Korea. That November, the Korean Empire became a Japanese protectorate.

The Russo-Japanese War was a psychological shock for the colonized peoples of the world. Lord Curzon, the British Viceroy in India, observed that the reverberations of Japanese victory had “gone like a thunderclap through the whispering galleries of the East.” Sun Yat-sen, traveling down the Suez Canal during the war, was asked whether he was Japanese; the Arab had observed vast armies of Russian soldiers being shipped back fo Russia from the Far East, which seemed a sure sign of Russia’s defeat. “The joy of this Arab,” wrote Sun, “as a member of the great Asiatic race, seemed to know no bounds.”

In South Africa, a young lawyer named Mohandas Gandhi wrote that “so far and wide have the roots of Japanese victory spread that we cannot now visualize all the fruit it will put forth.” A Hunanese schoolboy named Mao Zedong memorized a Japanese song taught by his music teacher, a former student in Japan:

The sparrow sings, the nightingale dances,  And the green fields are lovely in the spring.  The pomegranate flowers crimson, the willows green-leafed,  And there is a new picture.

Jawaharlal Nehru, reading the news in provincial India, found it stirred up his enthusiasm. “I waited eagerly for the papers for fresh news daily,” although he found Japanese history rather hard to follow and preferred “the knightly tales of old Japan and the pleasant prose of Lafcadio Hearn.” He began dreaming of Indian freedom, and his own role in freeing Asia from European domination. “I dreamt of brave deeds, of how, sword in hand, I would fight for India and help in freeing her.”

Of course, by the time Nehru heard the news from Tsushima, he was with his mother and sister on the train from Dover to Harrow. It happened to be just before Derby Day, and he and his family went to see the race. Still, the news put him in “high good humour.” Lord Curzon’s dyspepsia notwithstanding, the young Nehru would not be alone in his enthusiasm, whether at Harrow or at Epsom Downs.

Pankaj Mishra describes the Battle of Tsushima as the first act in The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia. “For the first time since the Middle Ages, a non-European country had vanquished a European power in a major war,” he wrote, and now Japan threatened Europe in a way that no colonized people ever had. It was not an uncommon sentiment at the time. As the Illustrated London News put it, “Europe has not recovered from the shock of finding out that the Japanese are a great people.”

The irony is that whatever succor their Chinese or Indian subjects might have felt, the English were as happy with the Japanese victory as any colonized people. “Every Englishman will join in the joy which is felt in the land of his allies,” wrote the North China Herald, the paper of British merchants in the Shanghai concession. In London, it was the greatest victory since the Battle of Trafalgar. “In the hundred years gone by since Nelson decided the destinies of Europe,” wrote The Times, “no such action has been fought at sea as that which begun on Saturday in the Straits of Tsushima, and no such victory has been won.”

Japan had been Britain’s treaty ally since 1902, whereas Russia threatened Britain’s interests in South Asia and the Far East. Britain shared the general sentiment that Japan had raised Asia to the level of Europe, but this was no bad thing: Henry Wilson, a pro-Japanese journalist, observed that “The era of inequality between the races is over. Henceforth white and yellow man must meet on an equal footing.” The Times wrote that Japan had proven itself to European powers “judged by every standard of modern civilization,” and their victory confirmed the wisdom of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance:

We can conceive no surer way of averting the danger of racial antagonism, if it in reality exists, than an alliance between the two Island Empires of the West and the East based on a community of peaceful interests, on joint responsibilities of mutual defence, and on kindred ideals of patriotism, progress, and freedom.

Even before the war, the British had seen Japan as Britain’s mirror image, a plucky island nation bringing the light of liberalism to the benighted peoples of the Far East. The North China Herald had welcomed the alliance as the coming together of “the Englands of the West and the East,” and a guarantee of “peace and the open door for all.” The Times’ correspondent in Tokyo wrote that Japan was fighting as “the champion of ideals which Anglo-Saxons, all the world over, hold in reverence.”

If Japan bloodied Russia’s nose in the process, that was all the better. Wilson wrote that “it cannot be denied by thinking men that [Japan], rather than Russia, represents civilized ideas, the freedom of human thought, democratic institutions, education and enlightenment – in a word, all that we understand by progress. It is Russia who stands for barbarism and reaction …” Britain hoped that Japan would protect liberal interests in the Far East, and accordingly British interests in the Pacific: ending Russia’s southward drive into China, and opening the door to foreign commerce in China outside European spheres of influence. Perhaps Japan would bring about the “Japanising of China,” and hence “the uplifting of this Empire by the spread of Western enlightenment and civilisation.”

As Lord Curzon’s observation makes clear, however, the settlers in the empire and its dominions were never so inclined to respect the Japanese. Although the British Columbia press praised the “inspired” patriotism and welcomed the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, some worried that the emergence of Japan as a world power would mean “the dominance of the yellow races in Asia” and a menace to Australia and the Pacific.

Two weeks before Tsushima, delegates from local labor organizations in San Francisco founded the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League, dedicating themselves to ending Asian immigration into California. The American Federation of Labor had already issued a resolution opposing all Asian immigration. In the British Empire, the “great white walls” the Dominions had raised against Chinese and Indian labor were now threatened by the Japanese. Lord Curzon wrote that “when challenged about the place of India in the Empire, [the Indian] replies that the Empire is nothing to him, since it cannot insure for the Indian his rights as a British subject in Australia, or British Columbia, or the Transvaal.” Curzon observed that this phase in colonial opinion was not likely to be either “fortuitous or transient,” but was likely, as time passed, “to stiffen into harder forms.”

On October 11, 1906, the day after the ratification of the Treaty of Portsmouth in Tokyo, the San Francisco school board decreed that ethnic Japanese students were to be forced into a segregated school, so that white children “should not be placed in any position where their youthful impressions may be affected by association with pupils of the Mongoloid race.” The New York Sun’s correspondent in Tokyo told his editors that “the exclusion of Japanese children from the public schools of California cuts this child-loving nation to the quick.” In Japan, some broadsheets urged the Japanese navy to make a detour to California to rescue the Japanese of San Francisco: “It will be easy work to awaken the United States from her dream of obstinacy when one of our great Admirals appears suddenly on the other side of the Pacific.”

President Roosevelt was disgusted by the San Francisco segregation order. He sent a cabinet member to San Francisco to persuade the school board to reverse itself. They ignored the message, and sent back the messenger. In his annual message to Congress, Roosevelt condemned the segregation order as a “wicked absurdity” enacted by a “small body of wrongdoers.” The Japanese had “won in a single generation the right to stand abreast of the foremost and most enlightened peoples of Europe and America; they have won on their own merits and by their own exertions the right to treatment on a basis of full and frank equality.” After months of pleading, Roosevelt persuaded San Francisco to reverse its segregation order, but only in exchange for concrete steps to end Japanese immigration. Roosevelt signed an immediate executive order barring Japanese aliens in Hawaii from migrating to the mainland.

In 1907, the Asiatic Exclusion League sponsored a mass demonstration in Vancouver that ended in a race riot. In the aftermath, the federal opposition leader Robert Borden joined local leaders in defending the rioters, as British Columbia was and must remain “a White Man’s province.” In 1907 and 1908, Canada, Australia, and the United States all came to “Gentlemen’s Agreements” with Japan, barring almost all further immigration. Although Japanese subjects had the right of free entry into Canada under the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, Japan agreed to use administrative measures to limit further immigration to Canada. They would refuse passports to all manual laborers requesting permission to travel to the United States. The rising tide of Asian migration was stopped, and “full and frank equality” postponed.

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance eventually withered away, but not before one final victory. On August 15, 1914, the Japanese demanded that the Germans relinquish their base in Tsingtao, “the root of the German influence which forms a constant menace to the peace of the Far East.” Germany was no more inclined to respect Japan’s demand than Russia had been: “They can tell this to a Russian but not to a German,” one German in Tsingtao wrote in his diary. Wilhelm II said that “it would shame me more to surrender Tsingtao to the Japanese than Berlin to the Russians.” Although the Kaiser would not live to see the surrender of Berlin, Germany would ultimately have to do both.

On November 7, the German garrison asked the Allies for terms. Only the German and Japanese chiefs of staff and a Japanese naval officer signed the terms of surrender; the British were neither consulted nor asked to put their name to the document. A week after the surrender, a representative of the emperor handed the British troops at Tsingtao a parchment expressing the emperor’s pleasure at their participation in the battle, along with a consignment of cigarettes bearing the emperor’s chrysanthemum crest. The British got the cigarettes and the Japanese got the peninsula.

During the Russo-Japanese War itself, however, one young German believed that Japan was the country’s natural ally. “For national reasons, I had already taken sides, and in our little discussions at once sided with the Japanese,” he wrote, two decades later, from his cell in Landsberg Prison. “In a defeat of the Russians,” wrote Adolf Hitler, “I saw the defeat of Austrian Slavdom.”

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Bibliography: Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan (Cambirdge, MA: Belknap Press, 2000); Pankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire (London: Allen Lane, 2012); Rotem Kowner, ed., The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War (London: Routledge, 2007); Jawaharlal Nehru, An Autobiography (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982); Cornelis Heere, “Japan and the British World, 1904--14,” unpublished PhD thesis, London School of Economics, 2016; Lord Curzon, The Place of India in the Empire (London: John Murray, 1909); Patricia E. Roy, A White Man’s Province (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989); Greg Robinson, A Tragedy of Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009); Ian W. Toll, Pacific Crucible (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012); Charles E. Neu, An Uncertain Friendship (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967); Jonathan Fenby, The Siege of Tsingtao (London: Penguin Books, 2014).

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beyond-infinity-consultancy · 3 years

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Why Beyond Infinity is the Best Consultancy in Nehru Place, Delhi?

Choosing an Immigration company for assistance can be a difficult task. This choice becomes, even more, overwhelming the list of consultants is quite huge. If you are planning to migrate to Canada permanently or you wish to go on a study basis, then getting a reliable consultant is more than important for you. So, stop looking forward if your search is in Delhi. Do you wish to know why? Because you have the back of Beyond Infinity Consultants. This consultancy is renowned in Delhi and works in PAN India. You can get the best facilitation to land yourself in Maple Leaf Country. In fact, when you will Google Beyond Infinity Consultancy in Nehru Place- You can see numerous positive reviews.

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visumoutsourcing · 4 years

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Best Immigration Consultant In Nehru Place

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nitikapatel · 4 years

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Suhel Seth || Famous Indian Alumni from Top Business Schools

The trend of Indian students going abroad is talked about a lot but it is hardly new for the Indian diaspora. From Mahatma Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru, and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, a number of famous and not so famous have crossed the seas in their search for knowledge and learning. Student migration has been in place since the colonial times, as the British selected bright Indian nationals for studying in Britain to nurture and train them to help the British govern the unruly Indians. Post-independence the trend continued and students discovered educational opportunities across the globe. Countries such as the US, Britain, Australia, Singapore, Canada, and New Zealand are ripe with universities and educational institutions.

In our interest to find out more about the famous Indian personalities who have studied abroad, here is a list of those who studied from the finest business schools in the world. Let’s take a look:

1. Satya Nadella: After his graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Nadella received his first job offer from Microsoft. At the same time, he was accepted at the Booth School of Business. He deferred his admission and opted for the weekend MBA program and graduated in 1997.

2. Suhel Seth: This famous Indian management guru has many talents to his credit. Apart from being the founder and managing director of his consultancy firm Counselage, he is also a leading columnist, TV pundit, actor, and a keynote speaker. Suhel Seth completed his education from Jadavpur University with degrees in Literature and International Relations. He is an alumnus of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and is also a member of the Harvard Business School Consultants Club.

3. Venkatesh Shankar: Popularly known as Venky, he currently works as a professor of marketing at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He pursued an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) in 1986 and his bachelor's degree in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Post this he received his Ph.D. in marketing from Kellogg School of Management in 1995.

4. Sundar Pichai: The face of Google, Pichai is a Siebel Scholar and currently the chief executive at Google. He graduated with an MBA from Wharton Business School in 2002. He is also an alumnus of Standford University where he pursued his MS degree in material sciences and engineering. He joined Google in 2004 after having worked with prominent companies such as Applied Materials and McKinsey Co.

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kristinsimmons · 6 years

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Raj of the NHS – How doctors from India and Pakistan saved the NHS

By ROHIN FRANCIS

India and Pakistan celebrate 71 years of Independence today. The British National Health Service owes them a debt of gratitude.

Great Britain’s national dish is famously chicken curry, but South Asia’s impact on this Sceptred Isle extends far beyond food. It is a testament to how ingrained into the British psyche the stereotypical Indian doctor has become that in 2005 a poll of Brits found the doctor they’d most like to consult is a 30-something South Asian female. In 2010 the BBC even ran a popular TV series simply entitled ‘The Indian Doctor’ following a story played out across the UK in the 1960s and 1970s, that of a humble family physician from the Indian subcontinent finding his feet in a country that asked him to come over and save the still-young ‘National Health Service’.

In 1948, India and Pakistan were not yet one year old when the NHS was created. Over subsequent years, recruitment drives encouraged young doctors to make a new home in the UK. Tens of thousands answered the call and it is no exaggeration to say the NHS would not have survived without them.

Now a swollen behemoth comprising some 1.8 million staff, the NHS is the world’s fifth largest employer. It is estimated to have a bewildering shortfall of 100,000 staff. Unsurprisingly almost 40% of Tier 2 (skilled) visa applications to the UK are to take up positions in the NHS. Yet over the last 13 years, South Asian doctors have been made to feel less welcome. In the first four months of 2018 alone, 400 visa applications from Indian doctors were rejected.

Before Theresa May became Prime Minister, she introduced a rigid cap on immigration from outside the European Union and in recent years the NHS has recruited many thousands of doctors, nurses, physiologists, radiographers and numerous more healthcare workers from the EU. With Brexit months away and migration from the EU dwindling, the UK is once again turning to South Asia. In response to the growing need for healthcare professionals, one of the current Home Secretary’s first actions after his appointment was to exempt non-EU doctors and nurses from the immigration cap. Nevertheless, the health service remains desperately short-staffed.

The NHS started its life in July 1948 with the noble intention of providing health care to every British citizen, free at the point of access. This ambitious plan ran into problems almost immediately. British doctors, typically affluent white men, were reluctant to relinquish time spent in lucrative private practice nor were they keen to work in deprived areas of the country. Confusingly, in 1957 the government also cut the number of medical school places, apparently ignorant of the rapidly-expanding post-war population.

This combination of factors meant that by the 1960s, the NHS was already in danger of collapse. Waves of British doctors, fed up by their reduced pay and NHS working conditions, emigrated to the USA, Canada, and Australia. The chairman of the British Medical Association’s Committee for Planning estimated that the yearly emigration of British trained doctors amounted to between 30 and 50% of the annual number of domestic medical graduates.

It is an ironic twist of history that the man who ushered in an influx of Asian doctors would later go on to foment anti-immigrant sentiments with infamous inflammatory speeches. Enoch Powell, best remembered for his xenophobic ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, was health minister at the start of the 1960s and proposed looking to South Asia to fill the NHS’s gaps. He oversaw the arrival of 18,000 junior doctors from the subcontinent, commenting that they “provide a useful and substantial reinforcement of the staffing of our hospitals and who are an advertisement to the world of British medicine and British hospitals”.

Ten medical schools had been founded by the British during their colonial occupation of India and as others sprung up, there were soon thousands of medical graduates, trained in English and in a similar manner to British medical schools. Great Britain also looked to the west for its nurses, imploring considerable numbers to come from countries like Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana, just as independence was sweeping through the Caribbean

There was a steady influx of South Asian doctors from the 1960s until the 1990s. Their experiences were varied but also striking in their common themes. Bright-eyed junior doctors set foot in the land of their former colonial masters, determined to make waves as renowned cardiologists or surgeons but instead faced institutional racism and career dead-ends.

They were corralled into so-called ‘Cinderalla specialties’; overlooked, underfunded and distinctly unglamorous. Many found themselves in old age psychiatry, genitourinary medicine, and geriatric medicine. Modern geriatricians often credit the influx and enthusiasm of South Asian doctors for shaping the critical specialty it has become today.

The majority were given no option but to work as GPs (general practitioners) in deprived areas such as rural mining communities or crime-ridden inner cities. While dreams of ascending the ranks of their Royal College slipped away, Asians found themselves the only doctors willing to work in areas serving the very people the NHS had been founded to assist – the poor. Collected accounts of doctors working through these decades consistently name the ability to have a direct impact on impoverished communities as the most rewarding aspect of their job.

In 1961, one of the country’s most pre-eminent doctors, the 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, addressed the House of Lords, stating “the Health Service would have collapsed if it had not been for the enormous influx from junior doctors from such countries as India and Pakistan”.

So dependent upon these doctors had the NHS become, that a transcript from the Ministry of Health fretted over the possible effect of an (albeit short-lived) war between India and Pakistan:

“…Dr. Elliott of the MPU is reported as saying that the NHS was in danger of collapsing, possibly within the next few months, because of diminishing manpower. The war between India and Pakistan might result in the recall to India and Pakistan of doctors from British hospitals which could, therefore, face paralysis within weeks … The same unpleasant thought had occurred to us and we have been considering what we can do.”

Yet analysis of correspondence to the British Medical Journal over the ensuing decades revealed a steady stream of objection to these new foreign colleagues.

By the 1970s South Asian doctors had become a familiar sight in the UK. In 1971 just over one-third of workers in the English NHS were from overseas. The fact so many Asian GPs had been allocated oversubscribed single-handed practices in isolated areas meant many faced overt racism. However, the majority became integrated pillars of their communities, respected as trusted doctors when general practice had not yet achieved the status of other medical specialties. The start of the decade also saw Bangladesh win independence from Pakistan, the UK vote to join the European Union and Idi Amin forcibly eject around 60,000 Indians and Pakistanis. Almost 30,000 of them made their new homes in the UK, again bolstering the NHS workforce.

In 1972, disquiet amongst the famously conservative British medical fraternity had persuaded the General Medical Council to cease recognizing Indian medical graduation as sufficient for registration to practice in the UK, establishing yet another hurdle for the new recruits, still so desperately needed the ever-expanding NHS.

When the 1980s arrived, 16% of GPs working in England and Wales had been born in India, Pakistan (including what would later become Bangladesh) and Sri Lanka. However, when examining inner cities this figure could rise to in excess of 50%. In 2003, 73% of GPs working in the underprivileged Rhondda Valley in Wales were of South Asian origin.

Racism and discrimination have been constant experiences for all overseas workers throughout the history of the NHS. Nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals found themselves unable to achieve positions of responsibility, earn equal pay and unsuccessful when applying for prestigious jobs. This has led to several professional bodies acknowledging and apologizing for this unfortunate legacy.

Today you are almost as likely to see a Dr. Patel as a Dr. Smith in the UK. There are 1724 Dr. Patels in the UK (in contrast to 1750 Dr. Smiths). Recent figures from the General Medical Council suggest around 29,000 doctors practicing in the UK graduated in India and 7,500 in Pakistan. Overall around a third of NHS doctors gained their medical degree outside the UK.

Jawaharlal Nehru’s legendary Independence speech ushered in the birth of two giant nations at the stroke of midnight precisely 71 years ago. He spoke of the tryst with destiny made by a colonized people, redeemed as they won freedom from the British Empire. At the end of the twentieth century, Britons voted the NHS as one of their greatest ever achievements and this monumental institution has ensured the United Kingdom and South Asia have remained intrinsically linked.

A perpetual political football, the NHS limps on with a drastic staff shortfall and continued dependency on imported labour. The first waves of South Asian doctors have retired and once again, home-grown medics are reluctant to work in the deprived parts of the country that are now on the hunt for young doctors. With Great Britain and Northern Ireland leaving the EU, it may well be a tryst with destiny that sees doctors and nurses from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka once again keep the NHS afloat.

Rohin Francis is a cardiology fellow and PhD candidate in London. He makes YouTube videos about medicine which have no clinical utility. He once drove an autorickshaw from Kathmandu to Kerala. He can be reached @MedCrisis

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rightsinexile · 7 years

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Conferences and workshops

Oxford Refugee Studies Centre’s Michaelmas term public seminar series, Oxford, UK

Every year, the public seminar series hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University gathers leading scholars in order to consolidate the empirical and theoretical knowledge of refugee economies, nurture wider networks of researchers working on economic lives of refugees and to establish a common space for exchanging ideas, discussing findings and challenges. Several seminars are on the agenda:

1 November- “Borders, boxes and disciplinary boundaries: the delineation of forced migration in research and practice,” this seminar, with speaker Dr. Gayle Munro, will consider consequences of categorisation in research, policy, and practice; common themes across different types of forced migration such as family, age, and gender and how these demographics translate into the delivery of support services; and finally, emotional motifs blueprinted across narratives of forced migration.

8 November- DPhil student Ria Kapoor will lead the seminar “Asylum and Nehru’s changing non-alignment: Tibetan refugees in India,” on the history of Tibetan refugees in India and its implications for Sino-Indian relations and foreign policy.

15 November- “Aquí es frontera. Transit migration and border control in southern Mexico.” Speaker Dr. Simon McMahon is a research fellow at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.

22 November- Annual Dr. Harrell-Bond lecture: “The displacement paradox: good refugees, bad migrants. Where can the unwanted go?” Dr. Jemilah Mahmood is the Under Secretary General for Partnerships at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She will discuss how the global community can address the humanitarian needs needs of migrants, including those who do not fit into conventional categories of international protection. The event will take place in The Grove Auditorium, Longwall Street, Magdalen College, Oxford, OX1 4AU, from 5:00pm-6:30pm. Find registration here.

29 November- “Belgian refugees between 'war' and 'peace': trauma, transition and repatriation.” Speaker Dr Hannah Ewence is a modern historian specialising in comparative minority studies, and the history of race, immigration and gender in fin de siècle, twentieth century and contemporary Britain.

All seminars are free and open to the public. With the exception of the annual Dr. Harrell-Bond lecture, all events will take place in Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB.

Winning back the human race: the legacy of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, London, UK, 14 November

Overseas Development Institute will convene this one-day conference at Chatham House to review the legacy of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (ICIHI) and its late Secretary General Zia Rizvi. In the early 1980s ICIHI produced a series of ground-breaking books and reports on a range of humanitarian issues. High-level speakers, humanitarian officials, analysts and advocates will discuss the impact of ICIHI’s work and the international community’s responses to humanitarian crises today. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is available here.

8th International Refugee Law seminar series, London, UK

Following the attacks on the US on 11 September 2001, James Hathaway and Colin Harvey questioned “Refugee Protection in the New World Disorder.” Fifteen years later they return to this topic in light of new threats to global order through a series of lectures that investigate key challenges for refugee law today. All seminars are free and open to the public. For further information on the seminar series please visit the School of Advanced Study website.

16 November- The Evolution of migration management in the global north, with speaker Christina Oelgemoller, lecturer at Loughborough University.

27 November- The Impact of Brexit on UK asylum law, with speaker Colin Yeo, barrister at Garden Court Chambers and editor of the Free Movement blog.

25 January- Allocation of competence in asylum matters under international and EU law with speaker Marcello Di Filippo, professor at the University of Pisa.

20 February- Authority and affect in immigration detention: A Critical account, with Mary Bosworth, director of Centre of Criminology and Border Criminologies at Oxford University.

8 March- Protecting Syrian refugees: Laws, policies and global responsibility-sharing, with speaker Susan Akram, professor of law at Boston University.

Kaldor Centre Conference 2017, Sydney, Australia, 24 November

This year’s Kaldor Centre conference, “The Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration” will bring together leading migration experts to share their insights and contribute to debates surrounding the 2018 adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees and Global Compact on Safe, Regular, and Orderly Migration. Professor Elizabeth Ferris, research professor at Georgetown University, is the keynote speaker. The complete program is available here.

Standard registration is AUD 150, registration for students and NGO members is AUD 100. The event will take place 9:00am-5:30pm in the ground floor of Law Theatre G04, Law Building, UNSW Kensington Campus.

International Refugee Rights Conference 2018, Toronto, Canada, 7-9 June 2018

The Canadian Council for Refugees invites non-governmental organisations and others to attend an international conference to take place at York University designed to enhance effectiveness in promoting the human rights of refugees and vulnerable migrants. Registration will open January 2018. For complete information, please visit the conference webpage.

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