Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia
Amrith, Megha, Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia, (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2017).
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Author Amrith, Megha Title Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia Publication Date 2017-03-01 Place of Publication Copenhagen Publisher NIAS Press Pages 272 Language eng Abstract Today, the Philippines has become one of the largest exporters of medical workers in the world, with nursing in particular offering many the hope of a lucrative and stable career abroad. This timely volume narrates their stories in a multi-sited ethnography that follows aspiring migrants from Manila’s vibrant nursing schools to a different reality in Singapore’s multicultural hospitals and nursing homes, and back home to a Filipino village. In so doing, the book offers anthropological insights on the lives and expectations of Filipino medical workers who care for strangers in another Asian city and the everyday encounters, anxieties and boundaries they face. It locates their stories within wider debates on migration, labor, care, gender and citizenship, while contributing a new and distinctive perspective to the scholarship on labor migration in Asia. Copyright Holder NIAS Press Copyright Year 2017 Copyright type All rights reserved ISBN 9788776941 -
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