Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials

To say that the world suffers an undersupply and mismanaged allocation of health care providers is easy. To analysze its gendered and intersectional dimensions from the vantage of global value chains is not. But it is precisely such an analysis that this book's collection from some of the world's leading health migration scholars provides. Essential reading for researchers, scholars, and policy-makers working in the globalization/health nexus. - Ronald Labonté, Professor and Distinguished Research Chair (Globalization and Health Equity), School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa This excellent edited collection highlights many of the regulatory, social, networked, and ethico-legal complexities associated with the transnational movement of health workers. Contributors show how these complexities span both sending and receiving countries and highlight the lack of agreement as to how complexities can be fairly mitigated. Collections such as this one play an important role in identifying opportunities to advance our critical thinking about the challenges and benefits of the transnational movement of health workers that can be used to inform policy action. - Valorie Crooks, Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies and Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University Global Migration, Gender, and Health Professional Credentials reminds us that mobility and migration is never simple, either as a personal journey, or as a policy issue. The book presents a range of new insights into the dynamics of health professional mobility which reinforces the complexities at play, whilst also putting the human experience front and centre. - James Buchan, Adjunct Professor, University of Technology, Sydney, and Visiting Professor, University of Edinburgh This volume is an important book for scholarly, policy, and practitioner communities worldwide. It is well-established that health worker migration is both a global and a gendered process, with 'value' accruing principally to richer countries with strong health systems to the detriment of largely poorer ones with weak health systems. Bringing a Geography perspective on the role of health professional credentials in mediating this process makes a vital contribution to understanding this dynamic. - Nicola Yeates, Professor of Social Policy, The Open University