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This article compares Taiwan's guest worker program and Japan's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) program to examine how these two countries, facing the similar problems of population aging and care deficit, have adopted divergent approaches to recruiting and training migrant care workers (“deferential surrogates” vs. “professional others”).

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This page is a summary of: Deferential Surrogates and Professional Others: Recruitment and Training of Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan and Japan, positions asia critique, February 2016, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/10679847-3320137.
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