Bringing together diverse approaches and case studies of international health worker migration, Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials critically reimagines how we conceptualize the transfer of value embodied in internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs).
This volume provides key insights into the economistic and feminist concepts of global value transmission, the complexity of health worker migration, and the gendered and intersectional intricacies involved in the workplace integration of immigrant health care workers. The contributions to this edited collection uncover the multitude of actors who play a role in creating, transmitting, transforming, and utilizing the value embedded in international health migrants.
Edited by:
Margaret Walton-Roberts
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781487523732
ISBN 10: 1487523734
Pages: 398
Publication Date: 19 April 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Global Migration, Gender and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses Margaret Walton-Roberts 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 John Ravenhill 2. Circulation of Love: Care Transactions in the Global Healthcare Market of Transnational Medical Travel Heidi Kaspar 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 Arthur Sweetman 4. Global Migration and Key Issues in Workforce Integration of Skilled Health Workers Andrea Baumann, Mary Crea-Arsenio and V. Antonipillai 5. Gendering Integration Pathways: Migrating Health Professionals to Canada Ivy Bourgeault, Jelena Atanackovic and Elena Neiterman 6. The Global Intimate Workforce Caitlin Henry Section 3: Transnational Health Mobilities: Networks, Regulation and Intermediaries 7. Networking Through Kafala: Understanding Transnational Networks in the Governance of Skilled Migration in the Gulf Crystal Ennis 8. Migration Intermediaries and the Migration of Health Professionals from the Global South Abel Chikanda 9. Transnational Influence in the Philippines Nursing sector: Producing Hardworking, Subservient Nurses for the World Maddy Thompson Section 4: Domestic Policies in Receiving Countries: Value Transfer, Integration and Regulation 10. Transfer of Professional Qualifications of Foreign-Born Nurses: Gender, Migration, and Geographic Valuations of Skill Micheline Van Riemsdijk 11. Ten Years of Ontario’s Fair Access Law: Has Access to Regulated Professions Improved for Internationally Educated Individuals? Nuzhat Jafri 12. Migrant Care Workers in Australia – A Gathering Crisis? John Connell and Joel Negin 13. Care Worker Migration and Robotics in Japan's Aged Care Sector Hector Goldar Perrote and Margaret Walton-Roberts Section 5: Recasting Brain Drain and Global Circulation 14. Nursing the Nation: The intellectual Labor of Early Migrant Nurses in the U.S. and the Development of University Level Nursing Programs in the Philippines (1935-1965) Christine Peralta 15. From Brain Drain to Brain Retrain – A Case of Nigerian Nurses in Canada Sheri Adekola 16. Peripatetic Physicians: Rewriting the South African Brain Drain Narrative Jonathan Crush 17. Recasting the ‘Brain’ in ‘Brain Drain’: A Case Study From Medical Migration Parvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry
Margaret Walton-Roberts is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Reviews for Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses
To say that the world suffers an undersupply and mismanaged allocation of health care providers is easy. To analysze its gendered and intersectional dimensions from the vantage of global value chains is not. But it is precisely such an analysis that this book's collection from some of the world's leading health migration scholars provides. Essential reading for researchers, scholars, and policy-makers working in the globalization/health nexus. - Ronald Labonté, Professor and Distinguished Research Chair (Globalization and Health Equity), School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa This excellent edited collection highlights many of the regulatory, social, networked, and ethico-legal complexities associated with the transnational movement of health workers. Contributors show how these complexities span both sending and receiving countries and highlight the lack of agreement as to how complexities can be fairly mitigated. Collections such as this one play an important role in identifying opportunities to advance our critical thinking about the challenges and benefits of the transnational movement of health workers that can be used to inform policy action. - Valorie Crooks, Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies and Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials reminds us that mobility and migration is never simple, either as a personal journey, or as a policy issue. The book presents a range of new insights into the dynamics of health professional mobility which reinforces the complexities at play, whilst also putting the human experience front and centre. - James Buchan, Adjunct Professor, University of Technology, Sydney, and Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh This volume is an important book for scholarly, policy, and practitioner communities worldwide. It is well-established that health worker migration is both a global and a gendered process, with 'value' accruing principally to richer countries with strong health systems to the detriment of largely poorer ones with weak health systems. Bringing a Geography perspective on the role of health professional credentials in mediating this process makes a vital contribution to understanding this dynamic. - Nicola Yeates, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University
