Care work, migrant peasant families and discourse of filial piety in China

Care work, migrant peasant families and discourse of filial piety in China / Longtao He.

This book examines the experiences of migrant peasant workers in China who care for parents diagnosed with cancer and explores to what extent contextual changes after the economic reform initiated in 1978 affected practices and experiences of caring. In his own attempt to develop a localized methodo...

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Main Author: He, Longtao (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:
Caregivers > China > Social conditions.
Internal migrants > China > Social conditions.
Filial piety > China.
Filial piety
China
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Care and Filial Piety
  • Filial Piety and Responsibilities and Burdens of Caregivers in China
  • Gaps in Existing Research and Theoretical Approaches
  • An understanding of Filial Piety in a Foucauldian Perspective
  • Innovations in the Methodological Approach
  • The Responsibility and Burden of Care for Migrant Peasant Workers
  • Parental Sacrifice Discourse
  • Forgetting Constructed as a Mechanism to Meet Increased Challenges for Filial Care
  • Complexity and Action/practice Orientedness of Filial Discourses and Telling the Truth (Parrhesia).

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