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Nurses on the move : migration and the global health care economy

Title
Nurses on the move : migration and the global health care economy / Mireille Kingma.
Author
Kingma, Mireille.
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2006.

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Description
x, 275 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
  • The culture and politics of health care work
  • Cornell paperbacks
Uniform Title
  • Culture and politics of health care work.
  • Cornell paperbacks.
Subject
  • Nurses, Foreign
  • Nurses > Supply and demand
  • Transcultural Nursing
  • Career Mobility
  • Foreign Professional Personnel
  • Nursing > manpower
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-258) and index.
Contents
1. Welcome to globalization -- 2. The human face of nurse migration -- 3. Mini-business, big business -- 4. Vested interests, inconsistencies, double standards -- 5. Trade and migration -- 6. Brain drain, brain gain, brain circulation -- 7. The grass could be greener ...
ISBN
  • 0801443059 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801472598 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005018420
  • 9780801443053
  • 9780801472596
OCLC
  • ocm60767068
  • SCSB-5222067
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries