Learning to leave: Filipino families and the making of the global Filipino nurse

• Main Author: ORTIGA, Yasmin Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Nurses; education; family aspects; migration; Philippines; Asian Studies; Family, Life Course, and Society; Nursing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3331; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4587/viewcontent/LearningToLeave_2020_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This chapter investigates how this process of reconfiguring the “social” plays out in the context of the Philippines’ labor export system and pervasive culture of emigration. Focusing on the case of Filipino nursing graduates seeking to work overseas, this chapter discusses how the success of the Ph...