South-North Nurse Migration and Accumulation by Dispossession in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries
Using David Harvey's notion of “accumulation by dispossession,” this article brings systematic understanding to the connections between two widely observed contemporary phenomena: growing inequality on a world scale, and the rapidly increasing shortages of nursing and other health labor in the...
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| description | Using David Harvey's notion of “accumulation by dispossession,” this article brings systematic understanding to the connections between two widely observed contemporary phenomena: growing inequality on a world scale, and the rapidly increasing shortages of nursing and other health labor in the global South. Through an exploration of the dynamics of late 20th-and early 21st-century nurse migration, it is demonstrated that the increasing flow of temporary migrant skilled labor from African and other countries of the global South, to the global North, is a new form of accumulation by dispossession. Socialist feminist notions of caring labor and the Marxian concept of unequal exchange are used to articulate how the disproportionate accumulation of global nursing labor in the global North represents a dispossession of yet greater proportions in the global South. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7abd0c80f8540bb9fb51d1947ac2e542023-05-03T14:01:21ZengPluto JournalsWorld Review of Political Economy2042-891X2042-89282012-09-013335437510.13169/worlrevipoliecon.3.3.0354South-North Nurse Migration and Accumulation by Dispossession in the Late 20th and Early 21st CenturiesSalimah ValianiUsing David Harvey's notion of “accumulation by dispossession,” this article brings systematic understanding to the connections between two widely observed contemporary phenomena: growing inequality on a world scale, and the rapidly increasing shortages of nursing and other health labor in the global South. Through an exploration of the dynamics of late 20th-and early 21st-century nurse migration, it is demonstrated that the increasing flow of temporary migrant skilled labor from African and other countries of the global South, to the global North, is a new form of accumulation by dispossession. Socialist feminist notions of caring labor and the Marxian concept of unequal exchange are used to articulate how the disproportionate accumulation of global nursing labor in the global North represents a dispossession of yet greater proportions in the global South.https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.3.3.0354 |
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| title | South-North Nurse Migration and Accumulation by Dispossession in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries |
| title_full | South-North Nurse Migration and Accumulation by Dispossession in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries |
| title_fullStr | South-North Nurse Migration and Accumulation by Dispossession in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries |
| title_full_unstemmed | South-North Nurse Migration and Accumulation by Dispossession in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries |
| title_short | South-North Nurse Migration and Accumulation by Dispossession in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries |
| title_sort | south north nurse migration and accumulation by dispossession in the late 20th and early 21st centuries |
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