14 Nursing the Nation: The Intellectual Labour of Early Migrant Nurses in the US, 1935–1965

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses 1
6. SECTION 1 Health Worker Migration and Global Value Transfer: New Approaches and Challenges
7. 1 The Study of Global Value Chains: Bringing Services and People In 29
8. 2 Circulation of Love: Care Transactions in the Global Health Care Market of Transnational Medical Travel 49
9. SECTION 2 Conceptualizing Workplace Integration and Stratification: Immigration Policy, International Credentials, and Intersectional Disadvantage
10. 3 The Migration of Health Professionals to Canada: Reducing Brain Waste and Improving Labour Market Integration 69
11. 4 Global Migration and Key Issues in Workforce Integration of Skilled Health Workers 95
12. 5 Gendering Integration Pathways: Migrating Health Professionals to Canada 109
13. 6 The Global Intimate Workforce 126
14. SECTION 3 Transnational Health Mobilities: Networks, Regulation, and Intermediaries
15. 7 Networking through Kafala: Skilled Workers and Transnational Networks in the Governance of Health Care Migration in the Gulf 143
16. 8 Migration Intermediaries and the Migration of Health Professionals from the Global South 167
17. 9 The Ethical Recruitment of Internationally Educated Nurses? An Examination of the Devaluing of Nursing in the Philippines, a Sending Region 187
18. SECTION 4 Domestic Policies in Receiving Countries: Value Transfer, Integration, and Regulation
19. 10 Recognition of Professional Qualifications of Foreign-Born Nurses: Gender, Migration, and Geographic Valuations of Skill 209
20. 11 Ten Years of Ontario’s Fair-Access Law: Has Access to Regulated Professions Improved for Internationally Educated Individuals? 230
21. 12 The Changing Face of Australian Aged Care: A Precarious Dependence? 246
22. 13 Care Worker Migration and Robotics in Japan’s Aged Care Sector 263
23. SECTION 5 Recasting Brain Drain and Global Circulation
24. 14 Nursing the Nation: The Intellectual Labour of Early Migrant Nurses in the US, 1935–1965 287
25. 15 From Brain Drain to Brain Retrain: A Case of Nigerian Nurses in Canada 307
26. 16 Peripatetic Physicians: Rewriting the South African Brain Drain Narrative 326
27. 17 Recasting the “Brain” in “Brain Drain”: A Case Study from Medical Migration 347
28. Contributors 365
29. Index 371