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<p>In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine Ceniza Choy engages this question through an examination of the unique relationship between the professionalization of nursing and the twentieth-century migration of Filipinos to the United States. The first book-length study of the history of Filipino nurses in the United States, <EM>Empire of Care</EM> brings to the fore the complicated connections among nursing, American colonialism, and the racialization of Filipinos. <P> Choy conducted extensive interviews with Filipino nurses in New York City and spoke with leading Filipino nurses across the United States. She combines their perspectives with various others-including those of Philippine and American government and health officials-to demonstrate how the desire of Filipino nurses to migrate abroad cannot be reduced to economic logic, but must instead be understood as a fund

Author

Catherine Ceniza Choy

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822330523

Subjects

Medical, Language Learning, History