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Kingma, Mireille.

Nurses on the move : migration and the global health care economy / Mireille Kingma. - Ithaca, N.Y. : IRL Press, 2006. - x, 275 p. ; 24 cm. - The culture and politics of health care work . - The culture and politics of health care work .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Welcome to globalization -- The human face of nurse migration -- Mini-business, big business -- Vested interests, inconsistencies, double standards -- Trade and migration -- Brain drain, brain gain, brain circulation -- The grass could be greener-- .

ISBN: 0801443059 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801472598 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780801443053 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801472596 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2005018420

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nurses, Foreign.
Nurses--Supply and demand.
Transcultural Nursing.
Career Mobility.
Foreign Professional Personnel.
Nursing--manpower.

LC Class. No.: RT89.3 / .K56 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 331.12/91362173

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WY 107 / K54n 2006