Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

The International Migration of Philippine-Educated Nurses: Impacts, Responses, and Policies in the Sending County | A Public Lecture

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The UP Asian Center will be holding the public lecture "The International Migration of Philippine-Educated Nurses: Impacts, Responses, and Policies in the Sending County" on 1 July 2025, 1:00 PM, PST (GMT+8), at the Seminar Room, UP Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman (ONSITE). The event is free and open to the public. Online pre-registration is recommended due to limited seating. 

ABOUT THE LECTURE

"The International Migration of Philippine-Educated Nurses: Impacts, Responses, and Policies in the Sending County"

The important role of nurses in the healthcare sector has become even more recognized worldwide during and after the pandemic. As a result, their international movement as well as the competition among destination countries are becoming increasingly intense. Against these backgrounds, my study will identify and analyze the impacts of the increasing international demand, and exodus of Filipino nurses on the Philippines’ healthcare labor market as well as on the nursing education, medical and nursing services and recruitment industries in the country. It will also examine the behavior of nurses and nursing students, particularly their stepwise migration pattern (Carlos 2013, 2014) and post-retirement residential preferences (Carlos and Plantilla 2021). The implications of the study will inform researchers and policymakers on feasible nurse migration policies that will sustain the demand for qualified nurses not only in the overseas destinations but more importantly, the Philippines. In order to achieve the objectives of this study, mixed methodologies – qualitative (field observation, individual interviews and focus group discussions) and quantitative (analysis of statistical data, text analysis and questionnaire survey) will be conducted in the Philippines and several destinations.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

MARIA REINARUTH D. CARLOS, Ph.D.
Ryokoku University, Kyoto, Japan

Maria Reinaruth D. Carlos is a Professor at the Graduate School and Faculty of International Studies of Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. She specializes and has published articles, both in Japanese and English, on the topics of Filipino nurse migration, post-retirement residential preferences of older Filipino migrants, and migrant integration in Japan. In the case of nurse migration, she has worked mainly on the theoretical underpinnings of the international stepwise migration behavior and its empirical examination in the case of Filipino nurses in Japan, Southeast Asia, the US, and Europe. Her articles were published in Routledge (Adhikari and Plotnikova – eds., 2023), the Journal of Feminist Economics Japan (2022),  the International Journal of Social Economics (with Garces-Ozanne, A. 2022) and the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal (2021), among others.

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The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The UP Asian Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. It also offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. As an area studies institution, the Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website.