Health-care worker migration has emerged as a social issue in Japan, contrary to it has in Indonesia. This article shows how national contexts affected by globalization have shaped social understandings and policies towards health-care worker migration in the two societies over time. Analyses of news coverage in the Japanese and Indonesian national media reveal a gap of social responses toward this change. The Japanese are more likely to respond negatively to health-care worker migration; yet they intend to face cross-cultural challenges, although slowly, making revisions to related policies. In contrast, in Indonesia, from where health-care workers migrate to Japan and many other countries, this tends to be understood positively, overall, as providing economic benefits and permitting Indonesian professionals to contribute to the worker shortage in Japan. I interpret these results based on the literature on health-care worker migration, emerging global norms and local changes, and comparative research on employment and care work. This study contributes to the sociological understanding of worker migration and health-care issues.

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全球化中的医疗保健工作：护理人员移居日本的新闻报道

与印度尼西亚相反，卫生保健工作者移民在日本已成为一个社会问题。本文展示了随着时间的推移，受全球化影响的国家背景如何影响了这两个社会对卫生保健工作者移徙的社会理解和政策。对日本和印度尼西亚国家媒体的新闻报道的分析揭示了社会对这种变化的反应存在差距。日本人更有可能对卫生保健工作者的移民做出消极反应；然而，他们打算面对跨文化的挑战，虽然速度很慢，但对相关政策进行了修订。相比之下，在印度尼西亚，卫生保健工作者从那里迁移到日本和许多其他国家，人们往往对此有积极的理解，总体而言，作为提供经济利益并允许印度尼西亚专业人士为日本的劳动力短缺做出贡献。我根据有关卫生保健工作者移徙、新兴全球规范和当地变化的文献以及就业和护理工作的比较研究来解释这些结果。这项研究有助于对工人移民和医疗保健问题的社会学理解。