Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Internationally recruited nurses from India and the Philippines in the United Kingdom: the decision to emigrate | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Internationally recruited nurses from India and the Philippines in the United Kingdom the decision to emigrate Álvaro Alonso-Garbayo1 and Jill Maben 2 Address 1London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK and 2King s College London National Nursing Research Unit London UK Email Álvaro Alonso-Garbayo - alvaro_alonso@ Jill Maben - Corresponding author Open Access Published 24 April 2009 Received 2 October 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 37 doi 1478-4491-7-37 Accepted 24 April 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 37 2009 Alonso-Garbayo and Maben licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background The United Kingdom has recruited nurses from countries with a reported surplus in their nursing workforce such as India and the Philippines. However little is known about the decision to emigrate made by nurses from these countries. One theory suggests that individuals weigh the benefits and costs of migration the push and pull factors. This paper challenges the restricted economic focus of this predominant theory and compares the diverse motivations of nurses from different countries as well as those of nurses with previous migratory experience and first-time migrants. Methods This research was undertaken in a National Health Service acute trust in London by means of a qualitative interpretative approach. Data were collected through face-to-face longitudinal and cross-sectional interviews with internationally recruited nurses from India n 6 and the Philippines n 15 and analysis
