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PostCaPE publication: Filipino nurses as enablers of the future welfare state: The global commodity chains of producing racialized care labour for ageing Finland

Filipino nurses as enablers of the future welfare state: the global commodity chains of producing racialized care labour for ageing Finland Tiina Vaittinen, Margarita Sakilayan-Latvala and Päivi Vartiainen. INTRODUCTION The imagery of the high-resolution advert is collated by merging separate photo- graphs in one. They capture young health care professionals working in clinical hospital spaces. In one image, a slightly darker skinned male, a Filipino perhaps, looks at the camera with a stethoscope loosely hanging around his shoulders. A doctor perhaps. Below, another picture: an older man sitting in the wheelchair. A blonde nurse stands behind him and listens, together with the patient, as a young Asian female doctor explains some papers to both. In the third image, a fit, grey-haired Asian man lies in bed. A female nurse, Asian as well, sits by the bed, keeping him company. A thin monitor placed in front of them hints that the room is in a clinical, high-tech environment.....

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Vaittinen, T., Sakilayan-Latvala, M. & Vartiainen, P. (2022). “Filipino nurses as enablers of the future welfare state: The global commodity chains of producing racialized care labour for ageing Finland”, in Nationalism and Democracy in the Welfare State edited by Pauli Kettunen, Saara Pellander, Miika Tervonen, Edward Elgar, pp. 184–208. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976589.00019