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Reluctant intimacies : Japanese eldercare in Indonesian hands /

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Switek, Beata (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.
ISBN:9781785332708
1785332708