Reluctant Intimacies

Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-016-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

¿Witek, Beata

Switek, Beata

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Altenpflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Switek, Beata
Beata Switek is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Beata Switek is Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.