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.
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