Health Migration Policies and Ethical Controversies: the Case of African Nurses in the UK
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Etat: Public
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serval:BIB_F726312C63DB
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Rapport: document publié par une institution, habituellement élément d'une série.
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Titre
Health Migration Policies and Ethical Controversies: the Case of African Nurses in the UK
Détails de l'institution
University of Oxford, International Migration Institute
Date de publication
07/2015
Numéro
119
Langue
anglais
Nombre de pages
28
Résumé
The United Kingdom (UK) for last few decades has been faced with a growing need for health personnel and has therefore attracted professionals, particularly overseas nurses. The country has been characterised by a historical migration policy favourable to the recruitment of foreign health staff. However, in the context of deep shortage and high level of diseases and health system weakness, the international health professional recruitment from Sub Saharan Africa has created unprecedented ethical controversies which have pushed the UK to the centre of discussions because of its liberal policies towards international recruitment that have been considered as aggressive. While the 'brain drain' controversy is well known, less attention has been devoted to the specific international health migration controversy and the pivotal role of the UK in the diffusion of ethical code of practice. Using mainly the perspective of the policy analysis of controversy (Roe 1994) and the analysis of discourses (de Haas 2008), our paper comes back respectively to the nature of the controversy and the pivotal role of the UK. It also analyses how the implementation of UK ethical policies - Code of Practice, banned countries list of recruitment, restrictive immigration policies - have been considered as inefficient and unethical in their contents and their targets.
Mots-clé
Migration policies, African health workers, International recruitment
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11/09/2015 16:43
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20/08/2019 17:23