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2005
New publication on migration by ICN nurse consultant
14 November 2005
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is pleased to announce the release of Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy,
written by Mireille Kingma, PhD, Nurse Consultant in Health and Policy at ICN and published by Cornell University Press.
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 country of the world, patients today increasingly find that the nurses who care for them come from a vast array of countries. In the first thorough book on international nurse migration, Mireille Kingma investigates one of today’s most important health care trends.
The personal stories of migrant nurses that fill this book contrast the nightmarish existences of some with the successes of others. Health systems in industrialized countries now depend on nurses from the developing world to address their nursing shortages. This situation raises a host of thorny questions. What causes nurses to decide to migrate? Is this migration voluntary or in some way coerced? When developing countries are faced with nurse vacancy rates of more than 40 percent, is recruitment by industrialized countries fair play in a competitive market or a new form of colonization? What happens to these workers-and the patients left behind-when they migrate? What safeguards will protect nurses and the patients they find in their new workplaces?
Highlighting the complexity of the international rules and regulations now being constructed to facilitate the lucrative trade in human services, Kingma presents a new way to think about the migration of skilled health-sector labour as well as the strategies needed to make migration work for individuals, patients, and the health systems on which they depend.
Editor’s note:
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of 129 national nurses’ associations representing the millions of nurses worldwide.
Operated by nurses for nurses since 1899, ICN is the international voice of nursing and works to ensure quality care for all and sound health policies globally.
For further information contact:
Linda Carrier-Walker
Tel: +41 22 908 0100
Fax: +41 22 908 0101
Email: carrwalk@icn.ch
ICN Website: www.icn.ch
