ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book offers an alternative and complementary perspective to the existing literature on migrant nurses. The state, as potentially both an employer and a legislator of migration policy, represents a dominant player shaping the work and the life opportunities of migrant nurses. Further, given the increasingly explicitly commercial nature and tone of migration, there is an increased role for commercial recruitment agencies and intermediaries that service the mobility of nurses and other workers. Patterns of global migration within a global context are often analysed by scrutinising variations in the number of people who cross national borders; and the policies that allow this mobility to take place. The sexual segregation of the workforce in Australia, as in many other countries, means that occupational selectivity of national migration policy results in a highly gendered migration process.
