The International Migration of Health Workers (Routledge Research in Population and Migration)

This volume provides the first detailed overview of the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers. The contributors focus on who migrates, why they migrate, what the outcomes are for them and their extended families, what their experiences in the workforce are, and ultimately, the extent to which this expanding migration flow has a relationship to development issues. It therefore provides new, interdisciplinary reflections on such core issues as brain drain, gender roles, remittances and sustainable development at a time when there has never been greater interest in the migration of health workers.

John Connell is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. He is the author or co-author of many books, including Music and Tourism: On The Road Again; Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place; Urbanisation in the Island Pacific: Towards Sustainable Development; The Last Colonies; & Papua New Guinea. The Struggle for Development