To Stay or to Go? Outmigration of Nurses from Ghana. A GPN / UCC Project

The Global Partnership Network (GPN) is a unique network of 12 universities and 18 civil society groups for research, teaching, and training in all continents around SDG 17 “Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. The GPN has been functioning since 2020, headquartered in Germany at the University of Kassel and funded by the German Federal Government. It aims to provide policy-relevant research in three areas: development cooperation, global economy, and knowledge production, keeping in mind that international partnerships have historically been shaped by colonial relations between North and South and continue to reflect them. GPN is an excellent forum to analyse transnational processes in the global economy and to organise comparative research in countries from different regions of the world, taking into account the prevailing global inequalities and neocolonial asymmetric power relations. The project “To stay or to go? Recruitment and Outmigration of Nurses from Ghana and India” focuses on so-called Global Care Chains. Since the 1960s, transnational health care chains have been established as a labour regime in a post-colonial context to overcome crisis situations in social reproduction and a severe shortage of health care personnel in the OECD world. Health care workers, the majority of whom are women, migrate from poor to more wealthier countries, from the Global South to the Global North.