Alternative Title
Learning to fill the labor niche: Aspiring nurse migrants caught in a migration trap
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2018
Abstract
Overseas recruitment has become a common strategy in filling nurse shortages within U.S. health institutions, sparking the proliferation of nursing programs in the Philippines. Export-oriented education exacerbates a mismatch, however, between available jobs (in both the Philippines and the United States) and the number of nursing graduates, thus increasing joblessness and underemployment among Filipino youth. Pursing higher education as a means to migrate also puts Filipino students at risk of getting caught in a migration trap, where prospective migrants obtain credentials for overseas work yet cannot leave when labor demands or immigration policies change. Such problems highlight the complicated impact of immigrant labor niches in places like the United States on developing nations, beyond the brain drain narratives that dominate academic and policy discussions.
Keywords
Nursing, Migration, Labor niche, Higher education, Philippines
Discipline
Asian Studies | Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Educational Sociology | Nursing
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Volume
4
Issue
1
First Page
172
Last Page
187
ISSN
2377-8253
Identifier
10.7758/rsf.2018.4.1.10
Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation
Citation
ORTIGA, Yasmin Y..(2018). Learning to fill the labor niche: Filipino nursing graduates and the risk of the migration trap. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 4(1), 172-187.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2679
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2018.4.1.10
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