Choy / Joseph / Rosenberg Empire of Care

Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8441-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

An interdisciplinary examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the U.S. is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the U.S. colonization of the Philippine Islands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choy, Catherine Ceniza

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: The Contours of a Filipino American History 1

Part I. Nurturing Empire

1. Nursing Matters: Women and U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines 17

2. “The Usual Subjects": The Preconditions of Professional Migration 41

Part II. Caring Unbound

3. “Your Cap Is a Passport": Filipino Nurses and the U.S. Exchange Visitor Program 61

4. To the Point of No Return: From Exchange Visitor to Permanent Resident
Part III. Still the Golden Door? 94

5. Trial and Error: Crime and Punishment in America's “Wound Culture"
121

6. Conflict and Caring: Filipino Nurses Organize in the United States 166

Epilogue 186

Appendix: On Sources 193

Notes 197

Bibliography 229

Index 245

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Ceniza Choy is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.