1st Edition
New Life Courses, Social Risks and Social Policy in East Asia
Introduction PART 1: Changes in Transitions 2. Extended transitions to adulthood in Japan: Labour market flexibilization and the weakness of social security for young people Akihiko Higuchi 3. Social Policies Addressing the Transition from School to Work of Post-Secondary Graduates in Taiwan: A Social Investment Perspective Chih-lung Huang 4. Will Dreams Come True? The Transformation of Social Inequality Structures in Cambodia – Experiences of a New Generation of Youth Managing the Uncertainties of Their Life Course Chivoin Peou and Jens O. Zinn PART 2: Competing Demands 5. Reconciling Work and Family in Taiwan: Problems and Policies Pei-Yuen Tsai 6. The Double Responsibilities of Care in Japan: Emerging New Social Risks for Women Providing both Childcare and care for the Elderly Junko Yamashita and Naoko Soma 7. Migrant Workers in the New Eldercare Mix in South Korea Seong-gee Um PART 3: Alternative Ways of Living 8. Families at Risk: The Lived Experience of Lone Mothers in Hong Kong Kam Wah Chan and Ka Man Lo 9. The Material Contradictions of Proletarian Patriarchy under Condensed Capitalist Industrialization: The Instability in the Working Life Course of Male Breadwinners and Its Familial Ramifications Choi Sun-Young and Chang Kyung-Sup 10. Re-employment after Retirement: Activation Strategies for Older People in Taiwan Hsiu-Jen Yeh , Shu-Er Wei, and Jen-Der Lue 11. Female Individualization and Implications on Social Policy in Hong Kong Raymond K H Chan and Ran Duan 12. Life-course Sensitised Policy as Risk Management: Directions and Strategies in East Asia Raymond K H Chan, Jens O Zinn and Lih-Rong Wang
Biography
Raymond K H Chan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies at the City University of Hong Kong, China
Jens O Zinn is a Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Lih-rong Wang is Professor of Social Work in the College of Social Science at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
