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Caring for Strangers

By Megha Amrith

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Caring for Strangers

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Today, the Philippines has become one of the largest exporters of medical workers in the world, with nursing in particular offering many the hope of a lucrative and stable career abroad. This timely volume narrates their stories in a multi-sited ethnography that follows aspiring migrants from Manila's vibrant nursing schools to a different reality in Singapore's multicultural hospitals and nursing homes, and back home to a Filipino village. In so doing, the book offers anthropological insights on the lives and expectations of Filipino medical workers who care for strangers in another Asian city and the everyday encounters, anxieties and boundaries they face. It locates their stories within wider debates on migration, labor, care, gender and citizenship, while contributing a new and distinctive perspective to the scholarship on labor migration in Asia.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2017-02-28
Publication Date:
2016-12-31
Publisher:
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
8776941930
ISBN13:
9788776941932
Weight:
340 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
226 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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