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Empire of Care : Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Contours of a Filipino American History
- Part I. Nurturing Empire
- 1. Nursing Matters: Women and U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines
- 2. "The Usual Subjects": The Preconditions of Professional Migration
- Part II. Caring Unbound
- 3. "Your Cap Is a Passport": Filipino Nurses and the U.S. Exchange Visitor Program
- 4. To the Point of No Return: From Exchange Visitor to Permanent Resident
- Part III. Still the Golden Door?
- 5. Trial and Error: Crime and Punishment in America's "Wound Culture"
- 6. Conflict and Caring: Filipino Nurses Organize in the United States
- Epilogue
- Appendix: On Sources.