Margaret Walton-Roberts is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

• IntroductionGlobal Migration, Gender and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and LossesMargaret Walton-RobertsSection 1: Health Worker Migration and Global Value Transfer: New Approaches and Challenges1. The Study of Global Value Chains: Bringing Services and People InJohn Ravenhill2. Circulation of Love: Care Transactions in the Global Healthcare Market of Transnational Medical TravelHeidi KasparSection 2: Conceptualizing Workplace Integration and Stratification: Immigration Policy, International Credentials, and Intersectional Disadvantage3. The Migration of Health Professionals to Canada: Reducing Brain Waste and Improving Labour Market IntegrationArthur Sweetman4. Global Migration and Key Issues in Workforce Integration of Skilled Health WorkersAndrea Baumann, Mary Crea-Arsenio and V. Antonipillai5. Gendering Integration Pathways: Migrating Health Professionals to CanadaIvy Bourgeault, Jelena Atanackovic and Elena Neiterman6. The Global Intimate WorkforceCaitlin HenrySection 3: Transnational Health Mobilities: Networks, Regulation and Intermediaries7. Networking Through Kafala: Understanding Transnational Networks in the Governance of Skilled Migration in the GulfCrystal Ennis8. Migration Intermediaries and the Migration of Health Professionals from the Global SouthAbel Chikanda9. Transnational Influence in the Philippines Nursing sector: Producing Hardworking, Subservient Nurses for the WorldMaddy ThompsonSection 4: Domestic Policies in Receiving Countries: Value Transfer, Integration and Regulation10. Transfer of Professional Qualifications of Foreign-Born Nurses: Gender, Migration, and Geographic Valuations of SkillMicheline Van Riemsdijk11. Ten Years of Ontario’s Fair Access Law: Has Access to Regulated Professions Improved for Internationally Educated Individuals?Nuzhat Jafri12. Migrant Care Workers in Australia – A Gathering Crisis?John Connell and Joel Negin13. Care Worker Migration and Robotics in Japan's Aged Care SectorHector Goldar Perrote and Margaret Walton-RobertsSection 5: Recasting Brain Drain and Global Circulation14. Nursing the Nation: The intellectual Labor of Early Migrant Nurses in the U.S. and the Development of University Level Nursing Programs in the Philippines (1935-1965)Christine Peralta15. From Brain Drain to Brain Retrain – A Case of Nigerian Nurses in CanadaSheri Adekola16. Peripatetic Physicians: Rewriting the South African Brain Drain NarrativeJonathan Crush 17. Recasting the ‘Brain’ in ‘Brain Drain’: A Case Study From Medical MigrationParvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry