Transnational Management and Globalised Workers

8 Conclusions

This book began as a journey with research questions and ended as a retelling of that journey’s story and its situational elements. The premise of the journey and the situated story were based on a research questions that led to a deeper investigation to examine a second research question. The first research questions were (1) Who are the representatives, organisations, and institutions involved in the recruitment and placement of Filipino nurses in Finland?; (2) What social worlds are they representing?; and (3) How do the representatives, organisations, and institutions socially interact and relate?

In September 2008, after presenting my PhD research interests on the international migration of health care workers, it was suggested ...