ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the vulnerability and stress caused by immigration legislation for overseas nurses. Rona highlights how these vulnerabilities can easily be exploited to harass overseas workers. She reflects on the failure of managers to listen to staff representatives who raise uncomfortable concerns and the subsequent attempt to intimidate her. Her story also draws attention to a pattern of experience where Black and Brown staff are forced to leave their place of employment to achieve promotion. She also highlights how institutional hierarchies intersected with racism in the pandemic, leading to neglect and the over-exposure of Black and racialised employees to COVID-19. She reflects on the emotional toll that this took on her and her community and the importance of each and every nurse being valued.
