Nicola Yeates - International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment: Global Governance, Politics and Policy

This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspective of global governance, policy and politics.

Covering 70 years of history of the development of this global policy field, this book presents new and previously unpublished data, based on primary research, to reveal for the first time that international health worker-migration- and -recruitment have been major concerns of global policy-making going back to the foundations of post-war international cooperation. The authors analyse the policies and programmes of a wide range of international organisations, from WHO, ILO and UNESCO to the IOM, World Bank and OECD, and feature extended analysis of bilateral agreements to manage health worker migration and recruitment, critiquing the claim that they work in the interests of all countries. Yeates and Pillingers ground-breaking analysis of global governance presents an assiduously researched study showing how the interplay and intersections of several global institutional regimes spanning labour, migration, health, social protection, trade and business, equality and human rights shape global policy responses to this major health care issue that affects all countries worldwide. It discusses the growing challenges to public health as a result of the globalisation of health labour markets, and highlights how global and national policy can realise the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals for all by 2030.

This research monograph will be of key interest to students and scholars of Global Governance, Global Public Policy, Global Health, Global Politics, Migration Studies, Health and Social Care, Social Policy and Development Studies. Policy makers and campaign activists, nationally and globally, will appreciate the practical relevance and applications of the research findings.

Nicola Yeates is Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University, UK. Notable books include Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers (2009), Understanding Global Social Policy (2014), The Global Social Policy Reader (2009), World-regional Social Policy and Global Governance (2010), Social Justice (2008) and Globalization and Social Policy (2001).

Jane Pillinger is an independent social policy researcher and policy advisor working in the areas of migration, employment and gender equality. She has carried out research and policy advice for global unions, social partner organisations, international organisations such as ILO, IOM and UNWomen, as well as national and European organisations and advocacy movements. She is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University, UK.

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Global Governance, Politics and Policy

Nicola Yeates and Jane Pillinger

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This book has had an extraordinarily long gestation period. It is inspired by the longer lineages of academic and policy research on the health workforce, international migration and social policy in which the authors have been immersed for at least two decades. The idea for this joint book specifically dates back about five years or so, when we undertook a joint project to track international policy responses on human resources for health migration (Yeates and Pillinger 2013) as part of a Canadian Institutes for Health Research/University of Ottawa grant awarded to Nicola Yeates at The Open University. The depth and breadth of analysis we have aimed to offer in this book goes way beyond that project and what it was possible to do at the time.

Works such as this are invariably best undertaken in the context of unstinting support gained from immersion in conducive institutional and intellectual environments. It has undoubtedly benefited from support over the years by The Open University where Nicola Yeates is Professor of Social Policy and Jane Pillinger is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Criminology. We would like to thank the OUs Facultys Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Development, the Citizenship and Governance network and the Migration network for enabling stimulating and collegiate exchanges. We especially thank the International Development and Inclusive Innovation Research Area for providing financial support for aspects of this work, and the Faculty more broadly for funding Nicola Yeates to participate in academic conferences in the UK and internationally at which aspects of this book have been presented and discussed. These include the conferences of the Historical Materialism collective (School of Oriental and African Studies), the Global Labour Studies group (University of Illinois), and the Global Dynamics of Social Policy Collaborative Research Centre (University of Bremen), together with those of the UK Social Policy Association, the East Asian Social Policy Network, and the International Sociological Association.