Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, 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 i...

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Beteilige Person: Świtek, Beata (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2016]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332708?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332708?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332708?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332708?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332708?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332708?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332708?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332708?locatt=mode:legacy
Zusammenfassung:Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, 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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (242 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785332708
DOI:10.1515/9781785332708