Population aging and International health-caregiver migration to Japan. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gabriele Vogt.
• Authors: Vogt, Gabriele
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction: Population Aging, Health-Caregiving to the Elderly, and International Labor Migration to Japan; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Main Argument of the Book; 1.3 Design and Content of the Book; References; 2 Health-Caregiving to the Elderly in Japan: Professionalized Labor, Community-Based Approaches, and International Migration; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Research Design; 2.2.1 Perspectives of the Chapter; 2.2.2 Political Demography and Health-Caregiving; 2.2.3 Social Capital and Health-Caregiving. 2.3 Demand and Supply: Health Care to the Elderly in Japan2.3.1 Population Aging; 2.3.2 Long-Term Care Insurance; 2.3.3 Health-Caregiving Outside the Family; 2.4 Growing of a Market: Professionalized Approaches to Health-Caregiving in Japan; 2.5 Activation of Social Capital: Community-Based Approaches to Health-Caregiving in Japan; 2.6 Expanding Perspectives: International Migration and Health-Caregiving in Japan; 2.7 Discussion of Findings and Concluding Thoughts; References; 3 International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan and Germany: Policies Designed to Fail; Abstract. 3.1 Introduction3.2 Research Design; 3.3 Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan and Germany: Backgrounds and Systems; 3.3.1 Japan and Germany: Paths to Health-Caregiver Migration; 3.3.1.1 Japan's Path; 3.3.1.2 Germany's Path; 3.3.2 Japan's Economic Partnership Agreements and Germany's Triple Win Program; 3.3.2.1 Japan's Economic Partnership Agreements; Policy Design; Basic Numbers; Migrants; Employers; System Evaluation and Policy Responses; Implications for the Health-Caregiving Labor Market and Future Migration Policy-Making; 3.3.2.2 Germany's Triple Win Program; Policy Design. Policy ImplementationTriple Win; Employers; Migrants; Basic Data and System Evaluation; 3.4 Discussion of Findings and Concluding Thoughts; References; 4 International Migration to Japan: Political and Societal Responses to the Challenge of Integration; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Research Design; 4.2.1 Regionalism from Below and Trust-Learning; 4.2.2 Trust-Learning, Democracy, and Diversity; 4.2.3 Local Citizenship; 4.3 Migration and Integration: The Composition of Japan's Foreign Population and Their Contribution to the Labor Market; 4.3.1 The Composition of Japan's Foreign Population. 4.3.2 The Contribution of Japan's Foreign Population to the Labor Market4.4 Migration and Integration: The Path to Local Citizenship in Japan via Labor, Welfare, and Community; 4.5 Discussion of Findings and Concluding Thoughts; References; 5 Outlook: International Health-Caregiver Migration to Japan; Abstract; 5.1 Lessons Learned from the Case Study; 5.2 Discussion of Current Policy Reforms; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.260952; Social sciences; Population aging -- Government policy -- Japan; Older people -- Services for -- Government policy -- Japan; Foreign workers -- Government policy -- Japan; Aged; Health Services for the Aged; Population Dynamics; Emigrants and Immigrants; Caregivers; Health Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies; Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; Foreign workers -- Government policy; Social Sciences; Migration; Public Health; Aging; Medical -- Public Health; Family & Relationships -- Aging; Public health & preventive medicine; Age groups: the elderly; Migration; Aging -- Research; Social Science -- Emigration & Immigration; Migration, immigration & emigration; Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; Japan; Japan; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319680125; 3319680129
• Related ISBNs: 3319680110; 9783319680118
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 5, 2017).
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