Transnational Management and Globalised Workers

7 Discursive Positions and Structural Barriers to Equality in Transnational Human Resource Management

This chapter addresses the discursive positions of the claims in the talk and text of representatives and organisations. Specifically, this chapter asks this question:

How, through discursive positions in the claims of the produced talk and text, are the representatives and organisations socially constructing the practices of recruitment and placement of Filipino nurses in Finland?

The aim is to illustrate the major contested issues in the discourses amongst representatives transnationally managing Filipino nurses. As argued in Chapter 6, dominant representatives and their associated social worlds emerge into the producer-based care networks ...