Reluctant intimacies : Japanese eldercare in Indonesian hands /

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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]
Temas:
Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
Older people > Care > Japan.
Caregivers > Japan.
Personnes âgées > Soins > Japon.
Aidants naturels > Japon.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gerontology.
Health and Fitness.
International economic relations
Caregivers
Older people > Care
Altenpflege
Altenpfleger
Altenpflegerin
Feldforschung
Indonesier
Indonesierin
Wirtschaftsethnologie
Sozialpolitik
Krankenpflege
Internationale Migration
Indonesischer Einwanderer
Arbeitsbedingungen
Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
Intimsphäre
Health and Wellbeing.
Indonesia > Foreign economic relations > Japan.
Japan > Foreign economic relations > Indonesia.
Indonesia
Japan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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

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