03851nam 22009135 450 991082176190332120221107062033.010.1515/9781785332708(CKB)3710000001060330(MiAaPQ)EBC4452097(DE-B1597)637490(DE-B1597)9781785332708(OCoLC)973325270(EXLCZ)99371000000106033020221107h20162016 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReluctant Intimacies Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands /Beata ŚwitekNew York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]©20161 online resource (242 p.)1-78533-269-4 1-78533-270-8 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 -- IndexBased 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.Older peopleCareJapanCaregiversJapanIndonesiaForeign economic relationsJapanJapanForeign economic relationsIndonesiaanthropological 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.nursing homes.page turner.realistic.social science.social sciences.societal transformation.sociology.working class.Older peopleCareCaregiversIndonesiaForeign economic relationsJapanForeign economic relations362.6/30899922052Świtek Beata, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1214957DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910821761903321Reluctant intimacies2806033UNINA