Migrant nurses and federal caregiver programs in Canada: Migration and health human resources paradox

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Salami, B.

• Despite the links between health human resources policy, immigration policy, and education policy, silos persist in the policy making process that complicate the professional integration of internationally educated nurses in Canada. Drawing on the literature on nurse migration to Canada through the Live-in Caregiver Program, this paper sheds light on the contradictions between immigration and health human resources policy and their effect on the integration of internationally educated nurses in Canada. The analysis reveals a series of paradoxes within and across immigration and health human resources policy that affect the process of professional integration of this group of health professionals into the nursing workforce in Canada. I will further link the discussion to the recently implemented Caregiver Program, which provides a unique pathway for healthcare workers, including nurses, to migrate to Canada. Given recent introduction of the Canadian Caregiver Program, major policy implications include the need to bridge the gap between health human resources policy and immigration policy to ensure the maximum integration of migrant nurses in Canada.

• Date created

  2016

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Nurse Migration
  • Migrant Caregivers
  • Health Human Resources
  • Immigration Policy
  • Internationally Educated Nurses
  • Home Caregivers

• Type of Item

  Article (Draft / Submitted)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R33T9DJ6H

• License

  The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 48/2, 06/2016 published by SAGE Publishing, All rights reserved.