Care Work, Migrant Peasant Families and Discourse of Filial Piety in China

AvLongtao He

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-03
Mått:148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt:493 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:275
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811618796

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Longtao He is an associate professor in medical sociology and social work at SWUFE, China. He has published numerous articles in journals such as Qualitative Health Research, British Journal of Social Work, and European Journal of Ageing. His research interests include qualitative health sociology, health social work, and ethics.

Innehållsförteckning

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).