Reluctant Intimacies

Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Beata Świtek (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-016-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Beata Świtek is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2021
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-016-0 / 1800730160
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-016-8 / 9781800730168
Zustand	Neuware