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Global Migration of Nurses from Sub-Saharan Africa: Human Capital Development and Neocolonial Perspectives — Forging an Ethical Framework

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Most western industrial nations are experiencing an acute shortage of health human resources that is beyond national remedies. As a consequence, many are actively recruiting nurses from developing countries that are experiencing acute public health challenges and their own dramatic shortages of nursing personnel. This chapter examines the challenges faced by nursing human resource of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from the perspective of human capital development theory and neocolonialism. These perspectives are useful prisms for assessing the factors associated with decisions to emigrate and aid in understanding patterns of migration from colonized host to destination countries, as well as explicating the phenomenon of racism reflecting many of the experiences of nurses of color as they practice their profession in western industrial democracies.

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Rondeau, K. (2014). Global Migration of Nurses from Sub-Saharan Africa: Human Capital Development and Neocolonial Perspectives — Forging an Ethical Framework. In: Lupton, N.C., Pirson, M. (eds) Humanistic Perspectives on International Business and Management. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137471628_4

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