1st Edition
Nurse Migration in Asia Emerging Patterns and Policy Responses
Introduction. Shifting the focus to Asia, Radha Adhikari and Evgeniya Plotnikova; Chapter One. Nursing education, employment, and international migration: The case of India, Hisaya Oda and Yoko Tsujita; Chapter Two. "Friendly relations" in troubled times: Tracing a decade of nurse migration from India to the UAE, Margaret Walton-Robert and Binod Khadria; Chapter Three. Nursing shortage and mobility in China: current development and future possibilities, Junhong Zhu, Huping Liu and Yingchun Zeng; Chapter Four. Career pathway, long-term settlement policies and stepwise migration aspirations of Philippine-educated nurses (PENs) in Singapore: lessons for policymakers, Reinaruth D. Carlos; Chapter Five. From nurses to care workers: Deskilling among Filipino nurses in Japan, Kat Navallo; Chapter Six. Dreams interrupted: Migrant Filipino nurses, gendered nationalism and ontological (in)security during the Covid-19 pandemic, Jean Encinas-Franco; Chapter Seven. An ageing society and a shrinking workforce pool: How Japan is preparing to tackle an impending demographic time-bomb, Radha Adhikari and Reinaruth D. Carlos; Conclusion. Nurse migration in Asia: current challenges and opportunities, Radha Adhikari and Evgeniya Plotnikova
Biography
Radha Adhikari is a Lecturer in University of the West of Scotland, UK. Her research focuses on international nurse migration, gender and global health inequality. Her latest research monograph, Migrant Health Professionals and the Global Labour Market: the Dreams and Traps of Nepali Nurses, was published in 2019, by Routledge.
Evgeniya Plotnikova is a teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She works for the Master of Public Health (MPH) online programme. Her research interests include health worker migration, bilateral labour agreements, and global governance in health.
"Nurse migration and mobility is both a personal decision based on individual circumstances, and a complex global policy issue. This book examines the complexities, gives new insights from Asia, and presents important messages for policy makers."
-James Buchan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
"A rich analysis of gender, shortage, deskilling, inequality, discrimination and low morale among the migrant nursing workforce in Asian countries with compelling insights into the commercialisation of global health care and the power of agency to influence national and international policy and practice."
-Pam Smith Professor Emerita, University of Edinburgh, UK
"Nurse migration is a genuinely global phenomenon whose dynamics play out differently across regional contexts. This edited volume provides welcome new insights into these dynamics in the Asian context - of where, and how, the ‘global’ meets the ‘regional’ and the ‘national’, and rich narratives of the multiple encounters between states and the array of non-state actors involved in ‘producing’, mobilising and relocating nurses across the globe. With pressures set to increase on global nursing workforces worldwide, this book provides a fascinating, timely and remarkable analysis of a major global phenomenon that is here to stay."
-Nicola Yeates, Professor, Social policy, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
