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Since the 1970s, the Philippines has become a major global exporter of nurses. Nurse-exporters tend to be Third World nations that supply capital-rich nations with their best nurses: a situation that has exacerbated pre-existing imbalances in health care services. This article analyses the skilled labour migration of Filipino nurses from both the supply & demand sides of the global trade of nurses. This approach highlights the impacts of large-scale skilled migration on origin labour markets/nations & in understanding globalisation processes in creating divergent development. The article further explores the theme of divergent development by analysing the labour markets in two major nurse-importing nations: the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Through these two case studies, we see differences in the dynamics of demand for nurses & how & in what ways the labour & human rights concerns of Filipino migrant nurses are differentiated by destination according to a racialised hierarchy of labour. 53 References. [Copyright 2004 Elsevier Ltd.]