ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I argue that an examination into the transnational management of nurses necessitates an examination into sites of knowledge production and politics of geographies. To facilitate this examination, I use Adele Clarke’s (2005) cartographic tools of situational analysis to construct social worlds, which are interacting and negotiating, in an arena where the central action is the transnational management of nurses. To illustrate negotiations and interactions between Finnish representatives and work organisations involved in the transnational management of nurses, the social worlds maps focus on ‘producer-based care networks’ as an arena.
More specifically, in this chapter, I endeavour to capture an arena where representatives and their associated social worlds interact to dominate, pacify, or remain silent within the social action of recruitment and placement of nurses from the Philippines. What this reveals is the ‘who’ of the situation or ‘who cares’ when it comes to recruitment and placement of these global nurses.
