Reluctant Intimacies - Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2016
Authors:	Beata Switek
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-1-78533-269-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Care of the elderly Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-78533-269-4
Barcode:	9781785332692

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