Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands / Beata Świtek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Świtek, Beata, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older people--Care--Japan.

Older people.

Caregivers--Japan.

Caregivers.

Indonesia--Foreign economic relations--Japan.

Indonesia.

Japan--Foreign economic relations--Indonesia.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Language

List of Abbreviations

Map 1 Distribution of Indonesian caregiver candidates who arrived in Japan in 2008

Map 2 Distribution of Indonesian caregiver and nurse candidates who arrived in Japan in 2008

Introduction

Chapter 1 Imagining Life and Work in Japan

Chapter 2 Working Intimacies

Chapter 3 Intimate Management

Chapter 4 National Predicaments

Conclusion Reluctant Intimacies

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)

ISBN:

1-80758-474-7

OCLC:

973325270