Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy

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