School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210030, Tucson, AZ 85721-00030, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2014 Apr;107:113-23. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.026. Epub 2014 Feb 14.
Transnational nurse migration is a serious global health issue in which inequitably distributed shortages hinder health and development goals. This article selectively reviews the literature on nurse migration that has emerged from nursing, health planning, and the social sciences and offers productive directions for future anthropological research. The literature on global nurse migration has largely focused on push/pull economic logic and the concept of brain drain to understand the causes and effects of nurse migration. These concepts obscure political-economic, historical, and cultural factors that pattern nurse migration and influence the complex effects of nurse migration. Global nurse care chain analysis helps illuminate the numerous nodes in the production and migration of nurses, and management of this transnational process. Examples are provided from the Philippines and India to illustrate ways in which this analysis may be deepened, refined and rendered more critical by anthropological research.
跨国护士移民是一个严重的全球卫生问题，其中不均衡分布的短缺阻碍了健康和发展目标的实现。本文选择性地回顾了护理、卫生规划和社会科学领域关于护士移民的文献，并为未来的人类学研究提供了富有成效的方向。关于全球护士移民的文献主要集中在推/拉经济逻辑和人才流失的概念上，以理解护士移民的原因和影响。这些概念掩盖了影响护士移民模式和影响护士移民复杂影响的政治经济、历史和文化因素。全球护士护理链分析有助于阐明护士生产和移民以及跨国过程管理中的众多节点。从菲律宾和印度举例说明了如何通过人类学研究深化、完善和增强这种分析。
