Background The migration of healthcare workers (HWs) from low/middle-income countries
(LMICs) is a pressing global health issue with implications for population-level health …

Objective. To look at nurse migration flows in the light of national nursing workforce
imbalances, examine factors that encourage or inhibit nurse mobility, and explore the …

Mobility has become an evocative keyword for the twenty-first century and a powerful
discourse that creates its own effects and contexts. The concept of mobilities encompasses …

South African nurses care for patients in London, hospitals recruit Filipino nurses to Los
Angeles, and Chinese nurses practice their profession in Ireland. In every industrialized …

This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social,
political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through …

Background Dramatic increases in the migration of human resources for health (HRH) from
developing countries like the Philippines can have consequences on the sustainability of …

Women are underrepresented in managerial positions and company international
assignments, in part due to gender discrimination. There is a lack of fair and just treatment of …

There is renewed interest in return migration among researchers of global movement
patterns. Until recently, it was overlooked, regarded as the result of failure by emigrants, or …

T he importance of migrant remittances to national economies is well documented and there
is little debate over the value of these flows (see Russell and Teitelbaum, 1992). t …

Since the early 1990s, medical tourism, whereby individuals choose to travel across national
borders or overseas to receive treatments, has been increasingly recognized in the United …