Care Trade: The International Brokering of Health Care Professionals

The appealing, modern websites of the private agencies specializing in the recruitment of health care professionals for Western markets invite the loggers-on to explore a myriad of opportunities. So fierce is the competition to secure scarce health care professionals that private recruitment agencies stage promotional events and aggressive recruitment campaigns in supplying countries, tripping over each other to attract suitable candidates. How did the shortages of health care professionals become so acute, and how did international migration come to be viewed as one of the solutions to the problem? What is the role played by private recruitment agencies in the flows of international migration? How have they assumed their responsibilities towards individual migrant health care workers? [from abstract]

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