Reluctant Intimacies

Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvBeata Świtek

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Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass media representations, the Indonesian workers' experiences serve as a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping the image of a national "other" in Japan.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-09-30
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor242
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781785332692

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"This study is based on in-depth research involving a good analysis of the articulation of national identities, sense of belonging and local labour markets with the social and bodily intimacies related to care for the elderly in Japanese institutions." * Ratna Saptari, Leiden University "Switek's study is a significant contribution to studies of migration in relation to national imaginations, as well as to the analysis of carework in a changing global context." * David L. McConnell, The College of Wooster