TY  - JOUR
A1  - Peppler, Lisa
A1  - Feißt, Martin
A1  - Schneider, Anna
A1  - Apelt, Maja
A1  - Schenk, Liane
T1  - Beyond one-sided expectations of integration
T2  - European journal of public health
N2  - Background: 
Like most countries, Germany is currently recruiting international nurses due to staff shortages. While these are mostly academic, the academisation of nursing in Germany has only just begun. This allows for a broader look at the participation of migrant nurses: How do care teams deal with the fact that immigrant colleagues are theoretically more highly qualified than long-established colleagues?

Methods: 
Case studies were conducted in four inpatient care teams of two hospitals in 2022. Qualitative data include 26 observation protocols, 4 group discussions and 17 guided interviews. These were analysed using the documentary method and validated intersubjectively.

Results: 
Due to current academisation efforts in Germany and the immigration of academised nursing staff from abroad, the areas of activity and responsibility of nursing in Germany are under negotiating pressure. This concerns basic care for example, which in Germany is provided by skilled workers, but in other countries is mostly provided by assistants or relatives. The question of who should provide basic care, whether all nurses or only nursing assistants, documents the struggle between an established and a new understanding of care. In this context, the knowledge and skills of migrant and academicised care workers become a crucial aspect in the struggle for a new professional identity for care in Germany.

Conclusions: 
The specific situation in Germany makes it possible to show the potential for change that international care migration can constitute for destination countries. The far-reaching process of change of German nursing is given a further dimension not only by its academization, but by the immigration of international and academically trained nursing staff, where inclusive or exclusive effects can already be observed.
Key messages: The increasing proportion of migrant nurses accelerates the current discussion on nursing in Germany. Conflict areas show up in everyday work of care teams and must be addressed there.
KW  - emigration and immigration
KW  - Germany
KW  - inpatients
KW  - negotiating
KW  - nurses
KW  - nursing staff
KW  - immigrants
KW  - professional identity
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62575
SN  - 1101-1262
SN  - 1464-360X
VL  - 33
IS  - Supplement 2
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - London
ER  -