Reluctant Intimacies (eBook)

Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Beata Świtek (Autor)

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2016
242 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-270-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;other"e; in Japan.

Autor

Beata Świtek, PhD, University College London, is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2016
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropological Scholarship • Anthropological Studies • Anthropology • Asia • biographical • Career • caregiver • Demographic Change • Demography • disease health issues • Dying • Elder care • Eldercare • engaging • Ethnographic Research • ethnography • Family • generational • Gerontology • Illness • immigration and immigrants • indonesian eldercare • indonesian workers • intimacy • Japan • japanese colleagues • Mass media • Medical Anthropology • Nursing Homes • Page Turner • Realistic • Social Science • Social Sciences • Societal Transformation • Sociology • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-270-8 / 1785332708
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-270-8 / 9781785332708