Reluctant Intimacies

Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

AvBeata Świtek

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785332692

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Beata Switek is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

Recensioner i media

"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

Innehållsförteckning

List of figures List of maps Acknowledgements Note on language List of abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Imagining life and work in Japan Chapter 2. Working Intimacies Chapter 3. Intimate Management Chapter 4. National Predicaments Conclusion: Reluctant intimacies Endotes Glossary Bibliography Index