Bodies of work: skilling at the bottom of the global nursing care chain

• Main Authors: ORTIGA, Yasmin Y., RIVERO, Jenica Ana
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Global care chain; body work; care work; nursing; labour migration; Philippines; Asian Studies; Social Welfare; Social Work
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2829; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4086/viewcontent/Bodies_of_work_skilling_at_the_bottom_of_the_global_nursing_care_chain.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In the midst of a growing global market for migrant care work, there is a need to investigate not only how such labour is consumed but how ‘ideal’ care workers are also produced. This paper investigates how schools within migrant-sending countries produce nurse labour through body work or the testin...