Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials : Transnational Value Transfers and Losses / edited by Margaret Walton-Roberts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walton-Roberts, Margaret, 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Feminism.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Globalization.

Labor mobility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : :University of Toronto Press, [2022]

Summary:

This edited collection explores how the value of training and skills invested in internationally educated health professionals is transferred, and transformed, and in some cases tarnished, at all stages of the international migration process.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses

SECTION 1 Health Worker Migration and Global Value Transfer: New Approaches and Challenges

1 The Study of Global Value Chains: Bringing Services and People In

2 Circulation of Love: Care Transactions in the Global Health Care Market of Transnational Medical Travel

SECTION 2 Conceptualizing Workplace Integration and Stratification: Immigration Policy, International Credentials, and Intersectional Disadvantage

3 The Migration of Health Professionals to Canada: Reducing Brain Waste and Improving Labour Market Integration

4 Global Migration and Key Issues in Workforce Integration of Skilled Health Workers

5 Gendering Integration Pathways: Migrating Health Professionals to Canada

6 The Global Intimate Workforce

SECTION 3 Transnational Health Mobilities: Networks, Regulation, and Intermediaries

7 Networking through Kafala: Skilled Workers and Transnational Networks in the Governance of Health Care Migration in the Gulf

8 Migration Intermediaries and the Migration of Health Professionals from the Global South

9 The Ethical Recruitment of Internationally Educated Nurses? An Examination of the Devaluing of Nursing in the Philippines, a Sending Region

SECTION 4 Domestic Policies in Receiving Countries: Value Transfer, Integration, and Regulation

10 Recognition of Professional Qualifications of Foreign-Born Nurses: Gender, Migration, and Geographic Valuations of Skill

11 Ten Years of Ontario’s Fair-Access Law: Has Access to Regulated Professions Improved for Internationally Educated Individuals?

12 The Changing Face of Australian Aged Care: A Precarious Dependence?

13 Care Worker Migration and Robotics in Japan’s Aged Care Sector

SECTION 5 Recasting Brain Drain and Global Circulation

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

15 From Brain Drain to Brain Retrain: A Case of Nigerian Nurses in Canada

16 Peripatetic Physicians: Rewriting the South African Brain Drain Narrative

17 Recasting the “Brain” in “Brain Drain”: A Case Study from Medical Migration

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3174-5

1-4875-3175-3

OCLC:

1291204865