This book provides the first detailed analysis of the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers and reveals its exceptional significance for both sending and receiving countries.

1. The Globalisation of Skilled Migration: A Pacific Perspective 2. The Pacific Islands and Health Care 3. The Rise of Pacific Migration 4. Becoming a Health Worker 5. Leaving Home? Movers and Stayers 6. The Impact of Health Worker Migration 7. A Policy Perspective 8. At the End of the Chain

John Connell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney. He has worked extensively in the South Pacific, and on the migration of health workers, and written various books about both, most recently The International Migration of Health Workers (Routledge, 2008).