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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781785332692
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-78533-269-2
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.09.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 510 g
- Seiten: 242
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt