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Negotiating Elder Care In A Transnational Context: Taiwanese Families And Vietnamese Migrant Workers, Stephen Lin
Negotiating Elder Care In A Transnational Context: Taiwanese Families And Vietnamese Migrant Workers, Stephen Lin
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As one of the most rapidly aging nations in the world, Taiwan is experiencing a growing demand for elder care labour. Limited state-funded care services combine with an ever-increasing number of dependent elderly members, to create a crisis of care that continues to be managed primarily by families. Although this is a culture where sons bear the primary filial responsibility in a patrilineal structure of filial care, daughters-in-law are often expected to provide significant levels of care to their parents-in-law when they require assistance. Women’s increased participation in the workforce since the 1980s, however, poses an additional challenge to families …