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Securing and retaining skilled workers in nursing and elderly care has emerged as critical challenge on a global scale. Across various countries, significant shortages have led to intensifying competition for care professionals and nurses on multiple fronts: between countries, urban and rural areas, and even among healthcare facilities. Despite the indispensable role of migrant care workers, a myriad of challenges persists, including obtaining residency permits, having qualifications recognized as well as practical obstacles such as language barriers and systemic knowledge. Join us in our interdisciplinary lecture series as we embark to understand these dynamics on migration, displacement, and inclusion in care work, nursing and beyond the workplace. Drawing on leading academic research and expert insights, we endeavor to foster a nuanced understanding on intersectional challenges faces and possible strategies to overcome these when looking specifically at retaining skilled workers in the care and nursing sector within the following three lectures: Lecture I - 27.11. at 1pm CET - on "Immigrant nurses: their living and housing situations in Norway" with Prof. Dr. Seeberg, Oslo Metropolitan University Lecture II - 04.12. at 1pm CET - on "The production of (transnational) spaces of migration in the health sector" with Prof. Dr. Lang, Osnabrück University Lecture III - 11.12.24 at 1pm CET - on "The contribution of diaspora to the management of transnational skills partnerships within the (pre-)integration phase: lessons from Kosovo" This lecture series is organized in collaboration by two FAU CHREN projects: “Gesundheit! Inclusion in the care and nursing sector”, funded by Stiftung Mercator, and “FFVT: Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer“, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).