Population aging and international health-caregiver migration to Japan

Vogt, Gabriele (2018): Population aging and international health-caregiver migration to Japan. Cham: Springer.

Abstract

This book introduces Japan’s current policy initiatives directed at eldercare and international labor migration, and, wherever appropriate, it adds a comparative perspective from Germany. The book shows how eldercare is currently being organized and discusses integration policies for foreigners. It studies the policy-making process behind the system, and contextualizes the migration avenue within the strong roots of Japan’s eldercare in local communities and the non-preparedness of the nation to grant local citizenship to international newcomers. Through applying an approach of multi-level policy making, putting a strong focus on the local level and introducing new approaches, this book is of interest to policy makers and scholars in aging, migration, health care, and contemporary Japan.

• Dokumententyp: Monographie
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Asienstudien > Japanologie
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie
• ISBN: 978-3-319-68011-8 ; 978-3-319-68012-5
• Ort: Cham
• Bemerkung: Review: Reiko Ogawa (2019), in: International Journal of Japanese Sociology 28:209-211, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijjs.12095
• Sprache: Englisch