Vol. 7 (2025): Nursing and Migration
This seventh issue of the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics 2025 is dedicated to the topic of ‘Nursing and Migration’ and has been edited for the first time by a group of guest editors: Fruzsina Müller, David Freis and Pierre Pfütsch begin their introduction by presenting the current state of research on this topic and providing an overview of the concept and of individual contributions to the issue. The explicit aim is to establish a fruitful exchange between historical and ethical perspectives.
The shortage of nursing staff is one of the constants in European healthcare systems. As early as the 1950s, European countries were recruiting qualified nurses and trainees for the nursing profession from abroad in order to avert a crisis in their own healthcare systems. Since then, demographic change and advances in healthcare have exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff. A considerable number of people working in nursing today are migrants.
This issue's front page features the cover of one of West Germany's leading journals for nursing professionals. This December 1968 edition focuses exclusively on recruiting nursing staff from India (copyright Bibliomed).
