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Nurses on the Move - Migration and the Global Health Care Economy (Hardcover)
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Nurses on the Move - Migration and the Global Health Care Economy (Hardcover)
Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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South African nurses care for patients in London, hospitals recruit
Filipino nurses to Los Angeles, and Chinese nurses practice their
profession in Ireland. In every industrialized country of the
world, patients today increasingly find that the nurses who care
for them come from a vast array of countries. In the first book on
international nurse migration, Mireille Kingma investigates one of
today's most important health care trends. The personal stories of
migrant nurses that fill this book contrast the nightmarish
existences of some with the successes of others. Health systems in
industrialized countries now depend on nurses from the developing
world to address their nursing shortages. This situation raises a
host of thorny questions. What causes nurses to decide to migrate?
Is this migration voluntary or in some way coerced? When developing
countries are faced with nurse vacancy rates of more than 40
percent, is recruitment by industrialized countries fair play in a
competitive market or a new form of colonialization? What happens
to these workers and the patients left behind when they migrate?
What safeguards will protect nurses and the patients they find in
their new workplaces? Highlighting the complexity of the
international rules and regulations now being constructed to
facilitate the lucrative trade in human services, Kingma presents a
new way to think about the migration of skilled health-sector labor
as well as the strategies needed to make migration work for
individuals, patients, and the health systems on which they
depend."
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