Abstract
Caring for Strangers. Filipino medical Workers in Asia, written by Megha Amrith
Highlights
Caring for Strangers offers a multi-sited ethnography that traces the labor migration of nurses and other medical professionals from Manila to Singapore and beyond. It offers a truly global perspective on the contemporary outmigration of Filipino nurses and shifts from the dominant literature as it takes our gaze from the past singular focus on the United States as the destination of such migrants to their multiple destinations that include developed economies in the global south. This ethnographic study illustrates the fissured negotiation of class and status by medical workers who go abroad to secure mobility but face the challenges of racial and national hierarchies in their destinations including the dominant perception of Filipinos as domestic workers and the lesser value placed on educational degrees from the Philippines
As reflected in the ‘migration imaginaries’ of aspiring Filipino migrants, the demand for medical workers covers the entire globe as it extends from the Middle East and Singapore to Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Europe
Migrant medical workers look at their future mobilities in destinations that offer higher wages or in better paying positions in Singapore but in the mobility they achieve in the Philippines, which remains home to many
Summary
Caring for Strangers offers a multi-sited ethnography that traces the labor migration of nurses and other medical professionals from Manila to Singapore and beyond. It offers a truly global perspective on the contemporary outmigration of Filipino nurses and shifts from the dominant literature as it takes our gaze from the past singular focus on the United States as the destination of such migrants to their multiple destinations that include developed economies in the global south.
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