Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials

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.

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