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.
- ISBN10 1785332708
- ISBN13 9781785332708
- Publish Date 1 September 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Berghahn Books
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 242
- Language English
- URL http://berghahnbooks.com/title/SwitekReluctant