Overview
- Assesses how care work and provision is gendered in individual countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Hong Kong
- Discusses immigrant care policy in East Asia and illustrates the social exclusion experienced by immigrant care workers
- Combines a macro and micro perspectives to provide a comprehensive picture of the background, implementation and consequence of immigrant care worker policies in different countries
Part of the book series: Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies (Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Gendered Care in East Asian Societies
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The Well-Being of Migrant Care Workers: Micro-Perspectives
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Migration and Care Regimes in East Asia: Macro-Perspectives
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Raymond K H Chan is Associate Professor  at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong.
Akiko S Oishi is Professor at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University.
Lih-Rong Wang is Professor at the Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University.Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia
Editors: Reiko Ogawa, Raymond K.H. Chan, Akiko S. Oishi, Lih-Rong Wang
Series Title: Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7025-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7024-2Published: 25 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4988-1Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7025-9Published: 12 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-7956
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7964
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 222
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Politics of the Welfare State, Gender Studies, Migration, Social Policy