Empire of Care Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

Name: Empire of Care Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
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ISBN: 9780822330899

ISBN-10: 082233089X

ISBN-13: 9780822330899

Edition: 2003

Authors: Catherine Ceniza Choy, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg

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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 professionalisation 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, Empire of Care brings to the fore the complicated…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.37" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Catherine Ceniza Choy is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the award-winning book Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History .



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Contours of a Filipino American History



Nurturing Empire



Nursing Matters: Women and U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines



"The Usual Subjects": The Preconditions of Professional Migration



Caring Unbound



"Your Cap Is a Passport": Filipino Nurses and the U.S. Exchange Visitor Program



To the Point of No Return: From Exchange Visitor to Permanent Resident



Still the Golden Door?



Trial and Error: Crime and Punishment in America's "Wound Culture"



Conflict and Caring: Filipino Nurses Organize in the United States


Epilogue


Appendix: On Sources


Notes


Bibliography


Index