Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

Looks at the unique relationship between the professionalization of nursing and the twentieth-century migration of Filipinos to the United States. Empire of Care is the first book-length study of the history of Filipino nurses in the United States and brings to the fore the complicated connections among nursing, American colonialism, and the racialization of Filipinos.

Published in 2003 by Ateneo De Manila University Press

272 pages