Migration and Foreign Remittances in the Philippines

Burgess, Robert M.; Haksar, Vikram

doi:10.5089/9781451861303.001

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“…The nursing education system is set up to meet international requirements. Filipino migrants sent back almost $8 billion in remittances in 2002, representing 9% of gross domestic product (Burgess and Haksar, 2005). It is not known to what extent nurse migrants contribute to this flow of remittances, but because the earnings of nurses are relatively high compared to other migrant occupations such as construction worker and domestic worker, nurses probably contribute much to their families through remittances.…”

Section: Impact Of Transnational Migration Of Nurses On the Sending Cmentioning

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The balance of care: Trends in the wages and employment of immigrant nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000

Arends‐Kuenning

2006

Globalizations

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Recently, the transnational migration of nurses from developing countries to developed countries has received heightened attention from policymakers, health-care practitioners, and the media. In this article, the 1990 and 2000 Census Public Use Micro Survey (PUMS) data files are used to address the issue of nurse migration. I examine changes in the number, location, wages, countries of origin, and other economic and demographic variables for foreign-born nurses and nurses' aides and US born nurses and nurses' aides over the time period 1990 to 2000. I find that foreign-born nurses and nurses' aides increasingly come from developing countries and, specifically, from Africa. This raises important ethical issues, as Africa faces a severe shortage of nurses in the context of the AIDS crisis. Foreign-born nurses are shown to have higher levels of education and higher levels of labor force attachment than US-born nurses.Since 2002, the transnational migration of nurses from developing countries to developed countries has received heightened attention from policymakers, health-care practitioners, and the media. Globalization, including technological improvements in communications such as the internet, has lowered the costs for matching up employers in hospitals and nursing homes in developed countries with health-care professionals in developing countries such as India, the Philippines, and Nigeria. Hospitals and nursing homes hire agencies to recruit nurses and doctors from developing countries in order to fill vacancies that are difficult to fill with domestic health workers (Brush et al., 2004;Rai, 2003). Greater economic integration among countries and the low cost of transportation have made it easier to cross borders.The economic and demographic forces that drive developed country hospitals and nursing homes to search for nurses in developing countries are expected to strengthen in the next

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Section: Impact Of Transnational Migration Of Nurses On the Sending Cmentioning

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The balance of care: Trends in the wages and employment of immigrant nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000

Arends‐Kuenning

2006

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“…Meanwhile, industry estimates would suggest that informal remittances to the Philippines -those not captured in the formal financial figures -may be in the range of US$1.5 billion per year (ADB 2004, 24-25). Growth in remittances is supporting firm economic growth for the Philippines (UNESCAP 2007) while also raising both socio-cultural and economic concerns about the long-term implications of being a major exporter of labour (Burgess and Haksar 2005;UCAN 2008).…”

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Migrant remittances and household development: an anthropological analysis

Eversole

Johnson

2014

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Over the past decade, influxes of remittances from overseas workers, mostly sent to families back home, have begun to attract policy and scholarly attention for their potential development impacts. This article seeks to answer the question: What is the development impact of these remittances for the households that receive them with reference to field data from remittancereceiving households in the Philippines. Recognising that different 'development logics' inform different understandings of development, this article analyses field data on migrant remittances with reference to three common sets of development logics: economic development, social development and sustainable livelihoods. It then dialogues and extends these findings with qualitative data on the way remittance-receiving households themselves understand the role of migrant remittances. An anthropological approach brings these different logics into dialogue, illustrating the complexity of households' quest for economic, social and livelihood outcomes, and the need to understand the contexts that influence their ability to meet their development goals at home and abroad.

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“…There has also been a change in the gender composition of migrants. Previously, males composed the great majority of migrants from the Philippines, but with the increased demand to fill jobs in professions such as nursing, the share of female migrants has increased significantly (Burgess and Haksar, 2005). 4…”

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The Global Crisis and the Impact on Remittances to Developing Asia

2009

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Migration and Foreign Remittances in the Philippines

Cited by 38 publications

References 5 publications

The balance of care: Trends in the wages and employment of immigrant nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000

The balance of care: Trends in the wages and employment of immigrant nurses in the US between 1990 and 2000

Migrant remittances and household development: an anthropological analysis

The Global Crisis and the Impact on Remittances to Developing Asia

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