Dissertation Information for Catherine Ceniza Choy NAME: - Catherine Ceniza Choy
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- History
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1998)
ADVISORS: - Valerie Matsumoto
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Michael Salman - Karen Brodkin
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: The export of womanpower: A transnational history of Filipino nurse migration to the United States
Abstract: In the late twentieth century, the Philippines has become the world's leading exporter of nurses. The major destination for Filipino nurses abroad has been the United States where, since the late 1960s, Filipino nurses have dominated the foreign-trained nursing labor force. Most of the studies of the international migration of Filipino nurses are sociological and statistical in nature. While they have documented the numerical significance of Filipino nurses abroad, they leave broader questions about this phenomenon of Filipino nurse mass migration unanswered: Why has the "developing" country of the Philippines emerged in the late twentieth century to provide professional nursing care for "developed" countries such as the United States? What enables and compels so many Filipino nurses to work abroad? Why does the United States, as well as other countries, actively recruit nurses from the Philippines?
My dissertation addresses these questions historically by analyzing the development of this international and professional labor force beginning with the American colonial period in the Philippines and concluding with the passage of the 1989 U.S. Immigration Nursing Relief Act. My methodology is interdisciplinary and includes archival research and participant observation in both the United States and the Philippines. One of my objectives was to place a human face(s) on this study through in-depth oral interviews with Filipino nurses working in the United States. I conducted forty-three oral interviews with Filipino nurses working in New York City hospitals and with Filipino nursing leaders across the United States.
Although the international migration of Filipino nurses is often conceptualized as a post-1965 phenomenon, I argue that the development of this mobile labor force is inextricably linked to the history of American imperialism and the early-twentieth-century U.S. colonization of the Philippines. Throughout this study, I emphasize that the creation, expansion, and export of a Filipino nursing labor force have been transnational processes involving the collaboration of both Philippine and American nurses, government officials, and hospital administrators.
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