ABSTRACT
To frame the situation of the transnational management of globalised nurses, this chapter provides an overview of the perspectives on the transnationalisation of care and the market of nurse human capital. The analytical concept of global care chains (GCCs) (Hochschild, 2000), Global Nurses Care Chains (GNCCs) (Yeates, 2009), and ‘producer-based care networks’ (Yeates, 2011) are introduced to address meso-institutional and organisational levels of transnational management of nurses.
The chapter addresses political and economic ideologies of neoliberalism influencing transnational managerial practices, and subsequent barriers to equality in the nursing occupation, which has been historically documented as gendered, racialised, and classed at various levels of organising.
