Skip to Content
Transnational Social Support
book

Transnational Social Support

by Adrienne Chambon, Wolfgang Schröer, Cornelia Schweppe
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
218 pages
7h 54m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Transnational Social Support

7    Sisters in Struggle?

Wars Between Daughters-in-lawand Migrant Workers

Frank T. Y. Wang and Chin-ju Lin

INTRODUCTION

One of the characteristics of welfare states in East Asian countries is the influence of Confucian culture (Lee and Ku 2007; Kwon 2005; Holliday 2000; Ku, 1995; Jones 1993). Caring for frail family members is considered to be a family responsibility under the influence of Confucianism, rather than a social issue to be dealt with by the state. By privatising caring responsibility for frail persons, social policies become subordinate to economic policies, which are aimed at economic development. Although Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan share the influence of Confucian teaching, what distinguishes Taiwan from South Korea and Japan ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Inside AutoCAD® 2002

Inside AutoCAD® 2002

David Harrington, Bill Burchard, David Pitzer
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2 Release Guide

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2 Release Guide

Karen Orlando, Paolo D'Angelo, Brian De Guia, Mary Lovelace, Curtis Neal, Christian Sonder, Markus Standau
IBM TotalStorage: SAN Product, Design, and Optimization Guide

IBM TotalStorage: SAN Product, Design, and Optimization Guide

Jon Tate, Jim Kelly, Pauli Rämö, Leos Stehlik

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780415888769