imperialism and colonialism in the philippines a recent study by jennifer nazareth know of the brown university filipino health initiative done that instead of addressing insufficient staffing and unsafe working conditions in the u.s. for decades policy has led to an exodus of mainly white our ends from the acute in-patient and ice you settings and has led to the direct recruitment of immigrant labor primarily filipino of these crucial roles that now have a ever dangerous and life threatening role in cope at 19. go ahead. so there is just really a lot of things to unpack from from her state man her really powerful statement to start off i feel there is really historical ties to what brought to philip you know nursing the asper here and in the united states. american colonialism had established the nursing profession to be what it is what it is now in the philippines and in turn have to have prepared many filipino nurses to be nurses in america instead of their home country so as so over the years as more and more shortages have happened through different pandemics and its different h