| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index. |
| Contents |
Reluctant Intimacies; Reluctant Intimacies -- Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands -- By Beata Świtek; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Language; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1- Imagining Life and Work in Japan; 2 -- Working Intimacies; 3 -- Intimate Management; 4 -- National Predicaments; Conclusion -- Reluctant Intimacies; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Older people -- Care -- Japan.
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Older people -- Care. |
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Japan. |
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Caregivers -- Japan.
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Caregivers. |
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Indonesia -- Foreign economic relations -- Japan.
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Indonesia. |
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International economic relations. |
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Japan -- Foreign economic relations -- Indonesia.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology. |
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Health and Fitness. |
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Health and Wellbeing. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Switek, Beata. Reluctant intimacies. New York : Berghahn, [2016] 9781785332692 (DLC) 2016025291 (OCoLC)947794933 |
| ISBN |
9781785332708 (electronic book) |
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1785332708 (electronic book) |
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9781785332692 |
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1785332694 |
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