ProjectHealth, Immigration Merchants of Care A worldwide bidding war for nurses is accelerating a migration from poor countries to rich ones. What happens to vulnerable care workers when they arrive in their new jobs far from home? And what happens to the vulnerable health systems they leave behind? Type Investigations and Quartz traveled the world to find out, with support from the Pulitzer Center. Image: Ibrahim Rayintakath/Quartz AwardsHillman Prize Investigations InvestigationHealth, Immigration A Hidden System of Exploitation Underpins US Hospitals’ Employment of Foreign Nurses Faced with an unprecedented staffing crisis, some hospitals are turning to a captive workforce. Aurora AlmendralQuartzOctober 2, 2023 InvestigationHealth, Immigration An Exodus of Nurses Has Caused a “Medical Brain Drain” in Nigeria. Are Rich Countries to Blame? The US and Europe are drawing healthcare workers from countries that can least afford to lose them. Aurora AlmendralQuartzSeptember 29, 2023 InvestigationHealth, Immigration How Nursing Brokers in India Turn Dreams of Opportunity Into Exploitation Abroad Brokers lure nurses into private care jobs with promises that seem worth paying for—until they fail to deliver. Samanth SubramanianQuartz, The Pulitzer CenterSeptember 28, 2023 InvestigationHealth, Immigration Rich Countries Are Importing a Solution to Their Nursing Shortages—and Poor Countries Are Paying the Price As US healthcare workers quit in droves, record numbers of migrant nurses from the Philippines and elsewhere are filling the void. Aurora AlmendralQuartz, The Pulitzer CenterSeptember 27, 2023
InvestigationHealth, Immigration A Hidden System of Exploitation Underpins US Hospitals’ Employment of Foreign Nurses Faced with an unprecedented staffing crisis, some hospitals are turning to a captive workforce. Aurora AlmendralQuartzOctober 2, 2023
InvestigationHealth, Immigration An Exodus of Nurses Has Caused a “Medical Brain Drain” in Nigeria. Are Rich Countries to Blame? The US and Europe are drawing healthcare workers from countries that can least afford to lose them. Aurora AlmendralQuartzSeptember 29, 2023
InvestigationHealth, Immigration How Nursing Brokers in India Turn Dreams of Opportunity Into Exploitation Abroad Brokers lure nurses into private care jobs with promises that seem worth paying for—until they fail to deliver. Samanth SubramanianQuartz, The Pulitzer CenterSeptember 28, 2023
InvestigationHealth, Immigration Rich Countries Are Importing a Solution to Their Nursing Shortages—and Poor Countries Are Paying the Price As US healthcare workers quit in droves, record numbers of migrant nurses from the Philippines and elsewhere are filling the void. Aurora AlmendralQuartz, The Pulitzer CenterSeptember 27, 2023