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Conflicto de Intereses , Industrias/ética , Industrias/historia , Ciencia/ética , Ciencia/historia , Confianza , Conflicto de Intereses/legislación & jurisprudencia , Consultores/historia , Historia del Siglo XIX , Historia del Siglo XX , Historia del Siglo XXI , Industrias/economía , Industrias/organización & administración , Ciencia Militar/economía , Ciencia Militar/historia , Premio Nobel , Servicios Externos/economía , Servicios Externos/historia , Servicios Externos/organización & administración , Ciencia/economía , Ciencia/organización & administración , Universidades/economía , Universidades/historiaRESUMEN
This article argues that international nurse recruitment from Latvia to Norway is not a winwin situation. The gains and losses of nurse migration are unevenly distributed between sender and receiver countries. On the basis of empirical research and interviews with Latvian nurses and families they left behind, this article argues that nurse migration transforms families and communities and that national health services now become global workplaces. Some decades ago feminist research pointed to the fact that the welfare state was based on a male breadwinner family and women's unpaid production of care work at home. Today this production of unpaid care is "outsourced" from richer to poorer countries and is related to an emergence of transnational spaces of care. International nurse recruitment and global nurse care chains in Norway increasingly provide the labor that prevents the new adult worker model and gender equality politics from being disrupted in times where families are overloaded with elder care loads.