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My Color Doesn’t Lie”

Race, Gender, and Nativism among Nurses in the Netherlands

Bibliographic Data

ID15736741
AuthorsMarci D Cottingham (0000-0003-3519-4100, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Lana Andringa (University of Amsterdam)
Year2020
Volume7
Pages2333393620972958-2333393620972958
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Qualitative Nursing Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2333-3936 • E-ISSN: 2333-3936
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/2333393620972958
PMID33283021
OpenAlexW3102229326
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited37

Nursing in white-majority populations tends to be associated with white women. Yet as Western Europe and North America undergo demographic shifts, such associations are challenged as people of different racial and national backgrounds take on positions in nursing and other professional roles in healthcare. This article explores the work experiences of nurses from diverse backgrounds as they confront intersecting forms of sexism, racism, and nativism in the Netherlands. We use the conceptual framework of "appropriate labor" to help explain these experiences in connection with the wider climate of Dutch native homogeneity and race and racism denial. These findings have implications for work policies that might better support minority nurses in contexts of increasing superdiversity while also challenging wider cultural norms in the Netherlands that continue to associate nursing with whiteness and deny the presence of racism

Criminology · Denial · Ethnic group · Health care · Immigration · Political science · Psychological nativism · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works2
Citations per year0,5
Citation span2022 - 2025 (4)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2

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