Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Local Production of Global Labor

亚利桑那大学的研究生梅根普雷斯科特，由马克A。尼希特，将承担在全球化市场的劳动力再生产的政治经济学研究。她将把研究重点放在菲律宾护士劳动力的繁殖上。菲律宾共和国是进行这项研究的适当地点，因为该国以过度生产和出口护士而闻名，当护士将工资汇回国内时，对国民经济和护士家庭都有好处。普雷斯科特将调查菲律宾护士劳动力商品化的过程;文化在护士劳动力生产中的作用;护士和汇款的国际流动;以及国家在促进，维持和管理菲律宾护士商品链中的作用。研究人员将在多个地点使用多种方法收集数据。她将采用开放式访谈，与多个利益相关者的关键知情人访谈，与护理专业学生和护士在迁移过程中以及他们的家庭半结构化访谈，与护理专业学生在12所学院或大学的调查，重点关注移民护士的看法及其对家庭的影响，并参与公共活动和功能的观察。将使用文本分析软件和叙述分析技术对文本数据（现场记录、访谈记录、生活史、叙述和档案材料）进行主题分析。拟议的研究有助于社会科学理论，扩大全球商品链分析的范围，将妇女的熟练劳动力迁移和当地环境和社区内的移徙变得正常化。特别是通过关注护士护理商品链，拟议的研究将提供一个新的视角，护士移民的复杂过程和影响，是相关的护士，家庭，卫生规划人员和政策制定者。这项研究也将有助于社会科学家的教育。

University of Arizona graduate student, Megan Prescott, supervised by Dr. Mark A. Nichter, will undertake research on the political economy of the reproduction of labor in globalized markets. She will focus her research on the reproduction of Filipino nurse labor. The Republic of the Philippines is an appropriate site for this study because it is known for overproducing and exporting nurses, which, when the nurses remit wages home, benefits both the national economy and the nurses' families. Prescott will investigate the processes by which Filipino nurse labor is commodified; the role of culture in the production of nurse labor; the international flows of nurses and remittances; and the role of the state in promoting, sustaining, and managing the Filipino nurse commodity chain. The researcher will gather data at multiple sites and using multiple methods. She will employ open-ended interviews, key informant interviews with multiple stakeholders, semi-structured interviews with nursing students and nurses in the process of migrating as well as their families, surveys with nursing students at 12 colleges or universities, focus groups on perceptions of migrant nurses and the effect of their migration on families, and participant observation at public events and functions. Text data (field notes, interview transcripts, life histories, narratives, and archival material) will be analyzed thematically using text analysis software and narrative analysis techniques. The proposed research contributes to social science theory by broadening the scope of global commodity chain analysis to incorporate both women's skilled labor migration and the local contexts and communities within which migration becomes normalized. By focusing on the nurse care commodity chain, in particular, the proposed research will provide a new perspective on the complex processes and impacts of nurse migration that is relevant to nurses, families, and health planners and policymakers. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.