Reluctant Intimacies : : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands / / Beata Świtek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Świtek, Beata,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785332708; 9783110998221
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785332708?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Beata Świtek.

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.