Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

by Catherine Ceniza Choy

2003

Status

Available

Call number

610.7309599

Series

American Encounters/Global Interactions (2003)

Tags

RT17.P6 C48 2003

Genres

Publication

Duke University Press

DDC/MDS

610.7309599

Description

An interdisciplinary examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the U.S. is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the U.S. colonization of the Philippine Islands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Subjects

Nurses Philippines
Nurses, Foreign United States

Original publication date

2003

ISBN

082233089X / 9780822330899

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