Learning to Fill the Labor Niche: Filipino Nursing Graduates and the Risk of the Migration Trap

Ortiga, Yasmin Y.

doi:10.7758/rsf.2018.4.1.10

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“…Moreover, immigrant Filipino women RN not only support their nuclear family but also provide for extended relatives including first and second cousins (Marcus et al, 2014). It is also important to point out that families and extended relatives of these Filipino RNs made the initial investment of using much of their earnings to send their loved one to attain nursing school training-based in the Philippines (Ortiga, 2018).…”

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From imperialism to inpatient care: Work differences of Filipino and White registered nurses in the United States and implications for COVID‐19 through an intersectional lens

Nazareno

Yoshioka

Adia

et al. 2021

Gender Work & Organization

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In the United States, nursing is the largest healthcare profession, with over 3.2 million registered nurses (RNs) nationwide and comprised of mostly women. Foreigntrained RNs make up 15 percent of the RN workforce. For over half a century, the U.S. healthcare industry has recruited these RNs in response to nurse shortages in hospitals and nursing homes. Philippines-trained RNs make up 1 out of 20 RNs in this country and continue to be the largest group of foreign-trained nurses today. Recently, the news media has publicized the many deaths of Filipino RNs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Given the imperial historical ties between these two countries in the context of the nursing profession and the enduring labor inequities that persist, this nationally representative study is one of the few to our knowledge to not only quantitatively examine the current work differences in characteristics and experiences of Philippinestrained RNs and U.S.-trained white RNs practicing in the United States today, but to also do so from an intersectionality lens. The overall aim of this paper is to illuminate how these differences may serve as potential factors contributing to the disproportionate number of Filipino nurses' COVID-19 related vulnerability and deaths in the workplace.

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From imperialism to inpatient care: Work differences of Filipino and White registered nurses in the United States and implications for COVID‐19 through an intersectional lens

Nazareno

Yoshioka

Adia

et al. 2021

Gender Work & Organization

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“…2001; Parreñas, 2015), Mexican migrant farmworkers (Mize & Swords, 2010), and Filipinx migrants in the health industry (Nazareno, 2018;Ortiga, 2018).…”

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Essential and Expendable: Migrant Domestic Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pandey

Parreñas

Sabio

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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In this article, we examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor conditions of domestic workers in the epicenter of the United States. We focus our analysis on the symbolic categorization of domestic work as “essential labor.” While domestic workers are lauded as heroes in public discourse, we argue that this symbolic recognition does not extend to material remuneration. Instead, we find that labor conditions better fit their categorization as expendable essential workers, meaning those whose essential labor is magnified during the pandemic but whose work remains materially undervalued. Data used in this article draw from observations of more than 30 hours of virtual town hall meetings on the pandemic hosted by migrant domestic worker advocacy groups in Los Angeles and New York.

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“…In the case of the Philippines, nursing education and international migration have long been intertwined, resulting in what Ortiga (2018) calls a migration and opportunity trap, where the Philippines' nursing schools' orientation toward international demand distorts local labour markets, constraining the options nurses have when international opportunities contract. This has resulted in continuous investment in educational upgrading, often funded by parents' saving and remittances from relatives overseas (Ortiga 2018). These hierarchies, determined by relative demographics, development and resultant debt, are complicated by the diverse stakeholders and timelines involved in these multistep pathways.…”

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Bus stops, triple wins and two steps: nurse migration in and out of Asia

Walton‐Roberts

2020

Global Networks

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The migration pathways in which nurses engage are increasingly heterogeneous. In this article, I contrast three types of nurse migration pathway from three country pairs – Vietnam to Germany ‘triple win’ bi‐lateral migration (direct migration); India to Canada two‐step study‐work (multistage) pathway; and ‘bus stop’ multinational migration from the Philippines to Singapore and onwards to other sites. Each pathway is not exclusive to the country pair selected; rather, this occupational and pathway specific analysis permits a comparison of the structures and processes involved – the different kinds of hierarchies that underpin mobility; the migration and border‐control infrastructure that channels mobility; and the differential incorporation of multi‐nationally mobile lives and their gendered/racialized implications. The migration trajectories analysed in this article reveal how multinational and multistage migrations are produced (through state and non‐state intermediaries and policy structures), and how they are productive of new subjectivities and imaginaries (shaped by what is possible and desirable).

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Learning to Fill the Labor Niche: Filipino Nursing Graduates and the Risk of the Migration Trap

Cited by 27 publications

References 52 publications

From imperialism to inpatient care: Work differences of Filipino and White registered nurses in the United States and implications for COVID‐19 through an intersectional lens

From imperialism to inpatient care: Work differences of Filipino and White registered nurses in the United States and implications for COVID‐19 through an intersectional lens

Essential and Expendable: Migrant Domestic Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bus stops, triple wins and two steps: nurse migration in and out of Asia

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