Project overview
Narratives of migration into the UK have often been framed around anxieties about the increased burden on the NHS. Migrant Medics will interrupt this narrative of scarcity and deficit by exploring the pivotal role played by early medical migrants to the UK who were expressly sought out to staff the nascent health service. This Oral history and archive based project will explore life histories, hidden labours, transnational cultural and financial investments and commitments inherent in the migration of medical expertise and lives across boundaries.
