Transcultural Migrations for Health Professions

Dear Colleagues,

Migration has been around since the beginning of time. Each society has had to face the changes and challenges accompanied by migrations.

These changes and challenges vary based on the movement of people from one country to another. Each nation addresses migration and acculturation of people differently. Some are more successful than others by appreciating the nuances of the integration of cultures. Today, countries face significant challenges caused by the pandemic, resulting in a reduced healthcare workforce.

This reduction is bringing about a migration tsunami where countries are recruiting aggressively and raising ethical concerns about the practices from human trafficking to the exploitation of health professionals.

Governmental and non-governmental organizations such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the International Council of Nurses and other entities of civil society have been actively involved in searching for solutions to better deal with the changes and challenges emerging from the migration tsunami.

It is our pleasure as Editors to invite you to submit your articles to this Special Issue, which aims to disseminate evidence on the subjects driven by the significant changes caused by COVID-19 and globalization in the health professional migrations.

This Special Issue aims to broadcast data on the changes and challenges affecting health professionals in the current worldwide post-Covid-19 scenario. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following: Brain drain, credentialing, codes of ethics, economics of migration, healthcare professionals, mutual recognition, nurse migration, nurse mobility, regulation.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Alessandro Stievano
Dr. Franklin Shaffer
Guest Editors

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