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Longtao He1, Kate van Heugten2, Maria Perez-Y-Perez3
1Associate Professor, Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China.
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This article reports on research that explored rural migrant workers' experiences of returning to their hometown to provide care for elderly parents diagnosed with cancer. The authors used a culturally integrated approach to Foucauldian discourse analysis to consider how 24 participants narrated their experiences of care in China. The discourse of care demonstrated a strong commitment to filial piety despite their unique care challenges, and this commitment was bolstered by discourses that emphasized how much parents had sacrificed, as well as by a persistent forgetting of experiences or background details that suggested any lack of parental sacrifice in recent Chinese history. Policy implications related to enhancing filial care are discussed.
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