Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands / / Beata Świtek
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| Autore: |
Świtek Beata
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| Titolo: |
Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands / / Beata Świtek
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| Pubblicazione: | New York; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.6/30899922052 |
| Soggetto topico: | Older people - Care - Japan |
| Caregivers - Japan | |
| Indonesia - Foreign economic relations - Japan | |
| Japan - Foreign economic relations - Indonesia | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | anthropological 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reluctant intimacies |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821761903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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