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NURSING INQUIRY
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 181-185Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2006.00320.x
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care; female migration; foreign nurses; women's work
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This paper examines nurses' international migration within the broader context of female migration, particularly against more studied groups of women who have migrated for employment in care-giving roles. We analyze the similarities and differences between skilled professional female migrants (nurses) and domestic workers (nannies and in-home caretakers) and how societal expectations, meanings, and values of care and 'women's work', together with myriad social, cultural, economic and political processes, construct the female migrant care-giver experience. We argue that, as the recruitment of foreign workers gains visibility, strategies are introduced to better prepare female migrant care-givers for the marketplace. Language, specifically command of English and accent modification, is highlighted as one means to assimilate migrant care-givers to host communities.
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