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Creating welfare, nursing empire: colonial nursing and the National Health Service

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Creating welfare, nursing empire: colonial nursing and the National Health Service
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Rutgers University
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This dissertation tells the story of how and why Caribbean, African, and Southeast Asian women quite literally nursed the British National Health Service (NHS) and its mostly white patients from its launch in 1948 through the late 1970s. These women were initially brought to Britain as part of a development project to train highly skilled nursing leaders for British colonies. But Britain’s hunger for nurses, at a time of severe nursing shortages worldwide, turned the development project into a pipeline of low-cost labor for the NHS. In hospital wards across the country, Black and brown nurses cared for the sick bodies of white British citizens. Their labor made the modern British welfare state and its promise of “social citizenship” possible. Yet their recruitment and employment in British hospitals contributed to the long-term impoverishment of health care resources in their own countries.

Moving from the colonial prehistory of nurse migration to its postcolonial consequences, “Creating Welfare, Nursing Empire” offers a new reading of where, how, and when Britain’s empire—under new strain after the Second World War—ended. It draws on over a dozen archives across Britain to narrate this story from a series of vantage points across the British Empire: the halls of Parliament and the floors of hospitals; local communities across Britain; colonial nursing schools in the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia; and elite professional nursing organizations in Jamaica and Nigeria that came of age on the eve of independence and faced severe “skill drains” in nursing. Well past the official moment of imperial handover, this dissertation demonstrates, recruitment overseas produced new forms of inequality in the hospitals of the NHS and the health care systems of former British colonies.
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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