Angela Garbes
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147 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 10 May
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What about my family, right?
But so my mom is a nurse, and I won't go into the whole long history of American imperialism in the United States, but the reason why my parents emigrated here is because my parents spoke English because of an American education system that was created by American colonialism.
And when there was a health worker shortage, the United States allowed highly skilled immigrants, like my mother and father, to come.
And when I was thinking about the history of caregiving in this country, you know, you have to really reckon with the reason why we devalue care work, which is performed mostly by women of color.
It's because of slavery, right?
This is why we accept women of color working in the home for free or for low wages.
So I was trying to wrestle with, like, how do I take this on?
But there was a statistic that came out during COVID that will never leave my body, and it is that Philippinex nurses are 4% of the nursing workforce in the United States.
Okay.
They are 34% of COVID-related nursing deaths.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
And that to me, I was like, this could be my mother.
This could be my children's grandmother.
And it's because when Philippine ex-nurses came over, they would tell me this is a familiar trope with immigrants here in the United States.
They took jobs that white workers didn't want.
Right.
They took ICU and critical care jobs that were more intimate with patients' bodies.
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