ABSTRACT
When, in the mid-1970s, Indian nurses started to be hired for newly built hospitals in various Gulf countries, it was an unexpected opportunity for the most adventurous of them to gain previously unimaginable good wages. Nearly 40 years later, thousands of young girls, predominantly Christians from Kerala, fill up the nursing schools all over India, the vast majority of them acknowledging the intention of migrating abroad after graduation. Nowadays, their ambitions are no longer confined to a job in the Gulf countries since many other opportunities are to be found in Western countries such as Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom (UK), etc.
