Historical Analysis of Filipino Nurse Migration to the US

Jurado, Leo-Felix M.; Pacquiao, Dula F.

doi:10.13178/jnparr.2015.0501.1303

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“…Low entry-level salaries for nurses in Sweden saw Swedish nursing students use emigration as a bargaining tool to drive up salaries in a nation-wide movement (Kiil and Knutsen, 2016). For nurses educated in the Philippines, the United States has been the main country of immigration, but recent reductions in visa processing has led to fewer Filipino nurses being able to enter the US for work (Jurado and Pacquiao, 2015: 16), thus changing their migration trajectories to other countries, such as Norway.…”

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“…Planning to apply for work in the US, he took the required English exam and started preparing for the US nursing exam, National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). However, due to the declining US visa opportunities for nurses from the Philippines at the time (Jurado and Pacquiao, 2015: 16), this plan did not work out. Instead, James found himself working as a nurse in a hospital in the Philippines.…”

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Waiting: Migrant nurses in Norway

Vaughn¹,

Seeberg²,

Gotehus³

2019

Time & Society

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Theories of waiting have created interest and discussion among migration scholars and especially in studies of asylum seekers, where imposed waiting is a key part of the experiences studied. ‘Skilled labour migrants’ such as nurses are privileged in many ways, and their migration-induced waiting, although significant, may be less evident to others. This paper uses waiting as a lens to help understand the experiences of nurses coming to Norway for work. We wish to contribute to the discussion about waiting by showing how experiences of waiting in migration may be less determined by structural conditions than has been suggested by the evidence so far. We argue that the experience of waiting arises at the intersection of politically imposed structural conditions and the messiness or complexity of individual, ordinary human lives. For nurses educated in Sweden, the process of registration is straightforward and takes little time. Nurses educated in the Philippines, on the other hand, meet major obstacles in the process, slowing down and sometimes permanently blocking their access to nursing jobs. While one might imagine an ideal, linear career that nurses could be expected to follow or want to follow, real life is not necessarily lived in a linear fashion. We use our material in this article to show how life happens and which role different forms of waiting may play in the deviations from any expected linear career. Viewing individuals from the two groups through the lens of waiting, we find similarities in the complexities of their lives, experiences, and reflections that it would otherwise have been easy to overlook or dismiss.

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Section: What Kinds Of Waiting: Four Nurses and Their Storiesmentioning

confidence: 99%