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Volume 22, 2015 - Issue 1
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Bodies across borders
Nurses across borders: global migration of registered nurses to the US Kim England Pages 143-156 | Received 26 Dec 2011, Accepted 12 Dec 2012, Published online: 07 Oct 2013
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https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2013.832658
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Like many other global north countries, the US is facing a nursing shortage. In the last few years, such nursing shortages have been identified as part of a broader ‘global crisis’ in nursing. Resorting to importing internationally educated nurses is a popular strategy to address the shortfall. Importing nurses into the US is not new. However, the current shortage is different because of greatly intensified efforts to recruit nurses from overseas, and because of the unprecedented scale of global nurse migration. This article uses an analysis of Census data to track the trends and geographies associated with internationally educated registered nurses (IERNs) in the US since 1980. I show that there are important subnational differences in the distribution of IERNs; most are concentrated in a few states. By paying particular attention to subnational geographies within the US, I draw attention to the variations in and implications of the distribution of IERNs and how this impacts public policy discourses associated with the transnational migration of IERNs into and within the US.
Enfermerxs a través de las fronteras: la migración global de enfermerxs certificadxs hacia los EE.UU. Como muchos otros países del Norte Global, los Estados Unidos está enfrentando una escasez de enfermerxs. En los últimos años, esta escasez ha sido identificada como parte de una “crisis global” de la enfermería. El recurso de importar enfermerxs capacitadxs en el extranjero es una estrategia común para enfrentar este problema. La importación de enfermerxs a los EE.UU. no es nueva. Sin embargo, la escasez actual es diferente debido a los esfuerzos mucho más intensos por reclutar enfermerxs en el exterior, y por la migración global de enfermerxs de escala sin precedentes. Este artículo utiliza un análisis de datos censales para seguir las tendencias y las geografías asociadas con lxs Enfermerxs Certificadas educadxs en el exterior (ECEE) en los EE.UU. desde 1980. Muestro que hay diferencias subnacionales importantes en la distribución de lxs EC educadxs en el exterior, la mayoría están concentradxs en unos pocos estados. Prestando particular atención a las geografías subnacionales dentro de los EE.UU., llamo la atención a las variaciones en la distribución de lxs ECEE y sus implicancias, y cómo esto impacta sobre los discursos de políticas públicas asociados con la migración transnacional de lxs ECEE hacia los EE.UU. y dentro de este país.
“”1980IERNsIERNsIERNs Keywords:: nurses, migration, care, relational geographies, scale, policy Palabras claves: enfermeros, migración, cuidado médico, geografías relacionales, escala, políticas :: , , , , ,
Additional information Author information Kim England Kim England is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. Her research interests include care work, labor markets, critical social policy, immigration, and critical theory.
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