Migration industries include a diverse array of migration-related services provided by the state, commercial agents, humanitarian organisations and migrant social networks. The work performed by this array of providers, both non-state and state actors, includes facilitating, filtering/channelling and constraining migration. As a powerful example of how migration industries work in general, we examine their dynamics in the care sector as part of glocal (care) chains involved in the migration of nurses. The article provides a conceptualisation of the role of the ‘migration industry’ as part of a changing global business in the field of care work. We direct our attention to the drivers and institutions that facilitate and shape the arrangements of international care mobility and the constitution of glocal urban assemblages. Drawing on three models of nurse migration – bus stop (Philippines–Singapore), two-step (India–Canada) and triple-win (Vietnam–Germany) – we show how the socio-spatial configurations of glocal urban assemblages linked to the three models yield different social integration outcomes for migrant nurses.

移民行业包括由国家、商业机构、人道主义组织和移民社交网络提供的各种与移民相关的服务。这一系列提供者（包括非国家行为者和国家行为者）执行的工作包括促进、过滤/引导和限制迁移。作为移民行业总体运作方式的一个强有力的例子，我们研究了他们在护理部门的动态，作为参与护士迁移的全球（护理）链的一部分。本文提供了“移民行业”作为护理工作领域不断变化的全球业务的一部分的作用的概念化。我们将注意力集中在促进和塑造国际护理流动安排和全球本地城市组合构成的驱动因素和机构上。