University of British Columbia
Graduate Student, Geography
Ph.D. Candidate, Trudeau Scholar 2009-2013
Thesis Title: Made for Canada, Product of the Philippines: Global Nurse Migrations & The Geopolitics of Global Justice
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David Ley
Merje Kuus Dan Hiebert Jim Glassman Jerry Spiegel |
About
My ongoing doctoral dissertation research examines the economics, geopolitics and ethics of recruitment and migration of internationally educated nurses from developing countries by developed countries. In particular, I am doing a global ethnography of Philippine-educated and trained nurses actively recruited by various Saskatchewan health regions in comparison to those who migrated to British Columbia’s health regions on their own. I am now in the sixth month of my 18-month multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork. I am currently conducting life histories, distributing qualitative surveys, interviewing key informants, doing transnational participant observation and setting up focus group discussions among three sets of actors: (1) Philippine migrant nurses in Canada, (2) the brokers of their recruitment and migration from both Canada and the Philippines, including private recruitment agencies as well as health authorities and free public recruitment agencies (3) experts on the ethics of health worker recruitment and migration, including nurse educators, health, labor and migration policymakers.
