Nearly every country in the world is wrestling with two interconnected issues: care for aging persons and in/out-migration in which poorer countries send workers to richer ones. This edited volume highlights the roles played by migrant care workers across European and East Asian countries and demonstrates "the increasing complexity and entanglements of migration and old-age care at the global level" (3). The first-rate Introduction offers brief summaries of individual contributions to the volume and explains how they illustrate the larger context of a substantial and growing workforce industry. The collection is based on the International Conference "The Long-Term Care Crisis: Tapping into Labour Resources Within and Across National Borders" which took place at the University of Mainz (Germany) in 2019. It includes analyses of migrant carework in Austria,

Being Dead Otherwise is about what else is going on in Japan around death and dying beyond wellknown traditional mortuary practices. Japan's families, ie, grieve their dead members. Buddhism has long been Japan's mortuary cult, through which rituals a family gradually transforms its dangerous recently dead into its revered and supportive ancestors, giving their ie immortality. Anthropologist Anne Allison suggests that "considering the implications of this rearticulation of deathcare away from familial others and onto or by the self -for Japan/ese but also beyond -is one of the major contributions of this book" (19).