Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands / / Beata Świtek

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821761903321
• Autore: Świtek Beata
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.6/30899922052
• Soggetti: Older people - Care - Japan; Caregivers - Japan; Indonesia - Foreign economic relations - Japan; Japan - Foreign economic relations - Indonesia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.