This volume provides the first detailed overview of the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers.

1. Towards a Global Health Care System John Connell 2. Globalised Labour Markets and the Trade of Filipino Nurses Rochelle Ball 3. New Opportunities: United Kingdom Recruitment of Filipino Nurses James Buchan 4. Here to Stay?: Migrant Health Workers in Ireland Nicola Yeates 5. 'Filipinos are Very Strongly into Medical Stuff': Labour Market Segmentation in Toronto, Canada Philip Kelly and Sylvia D'Addorio 6. Indian Nurses: Seeking New Shores Philomina Thomas 7. The Migration of Health Professionals from Zimbabwe Abel Chikanda 8. Migrant Nurses and the Experience of Skill: South African Nurses in the UK Health Sector Colleen McNeil-Walsh 9. Chinese Nurses in Australia: Migration, Work and Identity Christina Ho 10. The Impact of the Outmigration of Female Care Workers on Informal Family Care in Nigeria and Bulgaria Sarah Harper, Isabella Aboderin and Iva Ruchieva 11. Transient Greener Pastures in Managed Temporary Labour Migration in the Pacific: Fiji Nurses in the Marshall Islands Avelina Rokoduru 12. Reconceptualizing UK's Transnational Medical Labour Market Parvati Raghuram 13. The Recruiting of South African Health Care Professionals Christian Rogerson and Jonathan Crush