Struggling for recognition: working carers of older people in Japan and Taiwan
Struggling for recognition: working carers of older people in Japan and Taiwan
Japan and Taiwan are deeply influenced by Confucian thinking which views the care of older people as a family responsibility and frames care as a private issue rather than a public matter. The chapter explores similarities and differences in both countries’ changing systems of care for older people. It analyses the processes involved in securing carers’ rights through a struggle between the state and the carers’ movement, in which shifting carer subjectivities are shaped by discourses of rights and duties.
Keywords: Family ideology, Unpaid care work, Women’s movement, Carers’ movement, Migrant care worker, De-familialisation, Long Term Care Insurance, Japan, Taiwan
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