Table of contents - Special Issue: Shifting Boundaries of Care in Asia
Guest Editors: Yanxia Zhang, WeiJun. Jean Yeung
Shifting boundaries of care in Asia: an introduction
Yanxia Zhang, Wei‐Jun. Jean YeungAsia's traditional experiences with care provision differ considerably from those of the West given the prevalent family‐based social norms about care and policies in this region…
Making policy for care: experience in Europe and its implications in Asia
Mary DalyThis article provides an overview and analysis of care as a concept and object of policy makers' attention in Europe, mindful especially of the lessons that can be drawn from the…
Social and political economy of care in Japan and South Korea
Ito PengThe two East Asian developmental states of Japan and South Korea share very similar familialistic male breadwinner welfare regimes. However, in the recent years, both countries…
Care expectations, mismatched: state and family in contemporary Singapore
Shirley Hsiao‐Li SunThe purpose of this paper is to investigate in the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and…
Rolling back of the state in child care? Evidence from urban China
Yanxia Zhang, Mavis MacleanThe economic reforms which turned the centrally planned economy to a market economy have profoundly changed the tripartite relationship between the state, work unit, and citizen…
Inter‐generational family care for and by older people in Thailand
John Knodel, Napaporn ChayovanThe purpose of this study is to examine inter‐generational arrangements in Thailand for personal care provided to older members and provided by them as grandparents to young…
Institutional care provisions for the aged in Sri Lanka and some reflections on issues of “care” and “company”
Carla RisseeuwThe purpose of this article is to, within the specific Sri Lankan figures on ageing within South Asia (comparatively high longevity and high figures on intergenerational…
The emerging transnational “retirement industry” in Southeast Asia
Mika Toyota, Biao XiangThis article aims to explain how a transnational “retirement industry” in Southeast Asia has emerged recently as a result of interplays between various national and transnational…
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