Mobility of Health Professionals to, from and within the European Union

Internationally educated nurses in Canada: perceived benefits of bridging programme participation

“…Health professionals have always migrated to high‐income countries such as Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA. But with the creation of the European Union many high‐income countries in Europe, for example France and Germany, are experiencing greater inflows of internationally educated health professionals, especially nurses (Schultz & Rijks ).…”

Foreign‐born aged care workers in Australia: A growing trend

“…While data on deskilling are scarce in Australia, this is evident in Canada where 44% of the foreign‐born long‐term care workers in Canada are registered nurses in their country of origin . Numerous examples of the same deskilling process exist elsewhere whereby nurses and other professional health workers find work as carers because their qualifications are not recognised in their new country . This deskilling is likely to be taking place in Australia as well with potentially both positive impacts – with regard to higher quality of care – and negative – with regard to loss of skills and not utilising the full skill set of those individuals.…”

Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

“…The mobility associated with medicine differs from that of nurses -the former is more aligned to highly skilled sectors while nurses are usually considered as skilled so that the devaluation of their skills sometimes aligns them to less-skilled careworkers. For Schultz and Rijks (2014) these differences relate both to the causes of migration and its effects. They argue that whereas doctors move primarily for professional and economic reasons; nurses move especially to sustain their families at home.…”