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Fidel Taguinod

Fidel Taguinod

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Research Topic: Nursing the World: The International Healthcare Economy and the Breeding of 'Global Pinoy'

The Philippine experience in international labour migration is widely considered as a success by other countries, an observation further endorsed by international bodies such as the World Health Organisation. As an active source of professional nurses to the developed world, the country continues to produce more nurses than the local nursing market can employ. The trend of increasing local production has resulted in the proliferation of more private schools offering nursing programs; the retraining of medical doctors and other professionals to become nurses; and the development of transnational nursing education in the country, giving birth to a ‘surrogate nursing' paradigm, which aims to facilitate employment of Filipino nurses abroad. Rather than as a response to local health needs, this is provoked by global demand and competitiveness of the international healthcare labour market; significantly, the long-term effect to the country's health system remains understudied.

This doctoral project is an attempt to critically engage the intensifying debate on international nurse migration. My personal background and first-hand experience of migration informed my decision to explore the phenomenon of Filipino nurse migration from a biographical, ethnographic perspective through participant observation and the reading of material culture, combined with individual interviews, focus group discussions and policy review and analysis. While the Philippines' culture of migration has been widely reported, I argue that understanding this complex phenomenon calls for an excavation of the social, cultural, political and historical processes that continually shape Filipinos' personal motives and desires.

Selected Conference Papers

2008
‘Surrogate Nursing’: Who Benefits?’, Employment Research Centre, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin.

‘Surrogate Nursing: A Transnational Response to Global Nursing Shortage?’ 9th Interdisciplinary Research Conference, Trinity College Dublin.

‘Surrogate Nursing: Who benefits?’ Combined 12th International Philosophy of Nursing Society Conference and 15th New England Nursing Knowledge Conference Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

‘Transnational Surrogate Nursing Paradigms and the Breeding of "Global Pinoy", Research and Globalization Conference, West Visayas State University, Iloilo, Philippines.

2007
'Nursing the World: "Fast-Track" Care and the Formation of a Filipino Global Identity', Identity and Differences in Health and Healthcare Conference, University of Dundee, UK.

2006
‘International Recruitment of Nurses: Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges’, Sociological Association of Ireland Postgraduate Conference, Dublin City University.

Participant: Experts’ Roundtable on ‘International Workers’ Mobility: Causes, Consequences and Best Pactices’ (Organised by Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford University and Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University).

2005
‘Voices from Within: Experiences of Overseas Nurses Recruited in the Irish Health Service’, Trinity College Dublin Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference.

2003
‘The Transferability of Culture and Practice: A Transnational Dilemma?’ (Co- Presented with Dr Pauline Conroy, Ralaheen), An Bord Altranais Annual Conference.

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