Six Thousand Miles from Home: Health

As Southeast Asia has become popular tourist destinations for UK residents, featuring scenic seaside paradises, areas of natural beauty, and cheaper living expenses, Southeast Asians have been uprooted from their tropical homes and driven to migrate to the United Kingdom.  On arrival, they find an increasingly hostile local populace, comparatively astronomical costs of living, and a tortuous immigration process.  This series explores the complex interplay of Southeast Asians and the UK. 

This first session will examine the impact of the Southeast Asian Diaspora on the National Health Service, looking at the unique motivations of Southeast Asians migrating to work in the NHS, and the benefits this migration has provided to the health system. We then turn this on its head and look at the challenges Southeast Asians face when working in the NHS, including the complicated process of migration, the myriad differences in health care culture, and the idiosyncrasies of…