Abstract
This paper examines the reason for the small percentage of professional nurses with a Turkish migration background and investigates possibilities to increase this low amount. Our society grows older, and the number of chronic diseases increases. Furthermore, nursing professionals tend to migrate, and the retirement of the baby boomer generation will also create a lack of professional nurses in Vorarlberg, Austria. People with a Turkish migration background, who are the second largest group without Austrian citizenship in Austria, could be an important resource for the upcoming lack of qualified nurses. The nursing profession could be a secure career opportunity for these people, and therefore it is of great importance to make access to professional nursing training easier for people with a Turkish migration background. This paper describes the effects of migration on society, institutions and individuals and gives an overview of concepts related to how to deal with this situation. This qualitative study investigates the access to nursing training for people with a Turkish migration background from three different points of view—those of experts, students and nurses with a Turkish migration background, and people with a Turkish migration background who have to pass a university entrance qualification—in the form of guided interviews. The results will illustrate structural and social barriers due to complex social dynamics and also highlight possibilities to reduce those barriers. Based on the results, prospects for professional nursing are deduced on the macro, meso and micro levels, which should generate an increasing number of nurses with a Turkish migration background.
Highlights
This study was carried out in Vorarlberg, the smallest federal state in Austria
What are the experiences of experts in nursing training schools in Vorarlberg concerning people with a Turkish migration background during the admission procedure?
The first group consisted of experts on nursing training, which were determined by their profession and their extensive long-term experience in teaching and training nursing students
Summary
This study was carried out in Vorarlberg, the smallest federal state in Austria. A total of 66,230 out of 389,570 people living in Vorarlberg did not have Austrian citizenship in 2015; by the end of 2019, nearly 72,700 out of 397,852 people in Vorarlberg did not have an Austrian citizenship. The second largest group without Austrian citizenship was and still is people with Turkish nationality [1]. This number does not include all the people living in Vorarlberg who have a Turkish background. This suggests that the number of people with a Turkish migration background is essentially higher, explicit numbers were not found. In 2016, about 2.6 million people in Austria suffered from chronic diseases [3]. Another major point which underlines the upcoming
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