Rethinking Unequal Exchange: The Global Integration of Nursing Labour Markets - Hardcover

Salimah Valiani

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442643668 ISBN 13: 9781442643666

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2012

Synopsis

Rethinking Unequal Exchange traces the structural forces that have created the conditions for the increasing use, production, and circulation of temporary migrant nurses worldwide. Salimah Valiani explores the political economy of health care of three globally important countries in the importing and exporting of temporary migrant nurses: the Philippines, the world's largest supplier of temporary migrant nurses; the United States, the world's largest demander of internationally trained nurses; and Canada, which is both a supplier and a demander of internationally trained nurses. Using a world historical approach, Valiani demonstrates that though nursing and other caring labour is essential to human, social, and economic development, the exploitation of care workers is escalating. Valiani cogently shows how the global integration of nursing labour markets is deepening unequal exchange between the global North and the global South.

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About the Author

Salimah Valiani is associate researcher with the Centre for the Study of Education and Work, University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1442643668
• ISBN 13: 9781442643666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208