Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History 0822330520, 082233089X, 2002012388

In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and awa

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Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
0822330520, 082233089X, 2002012388

An interdisciplinary examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the U.S. is inextricably linked

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The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a wave of Filipino immigration to the United States, following in the

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Bringing the fields of Filipino Migration Studies and Filipina/o/x American studies together, this book analyzes some of

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Every year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well train

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"Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursing schools and studen

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of

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By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and

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In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the per

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