Bjoring Center Nursing History Forum on September 24, 2024

"Bait, Switch, and Sue: Filipino Nurses’ Solidarity
Against Exploitative International Recruitment Practices, 2005-2009" 
Presented by Andre Rosario, PhD, RN 

Sept. 24, 2024
12 pm - 1 pm (ET) on Zoom 

Zoom link:
https://virginia.zoom.us/j/95929377121?pwd=Jcn2XGuA336a5gcgUXT058IvrINq6X.1
Meeting ID: 959 2937 7121; Passcode: 709447

Hosted by the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry

By the early 2000s, the recruitment of international nurses to work in the U.S. had become a powerful industry. When a group of Filipino nurses working in Long Island, NY, sought to break their contracts—overworked, placed in substandard housing, and paid less than their U.S. counterparts—the company retaliated, bringing civil, criminal, and administrative charges against them. This presentation is a historical case study of the “Sentosa 27++” nurses, as they were called. It marks a concerning shift in international recruitment practices, with migrant nurses increasingly vulnerable to the corporate interests of this industry.

Andre A. Rosario, PhD, RN, is a historian, nurse scientist, and Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University School of Nursing. He studies the history of Filipino nurse migration to the U.S., Filipino immigrant nurses’ political organizing, and nursing workforce policy related to internationally-educated nurses. He received a PhD in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was affiliated with the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. His work has been supported by Penn’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration and the American Association for the History of Nursing.

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