Moving to Beijing to Take Care of My Child with a Chronic Disease: How Does It Change My Own Identity?

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10.2991/assehr.k.211220.064How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Caregiver; Gender; Identity Change; Identity Formation; Migration

Abstract

Over the past decade, more Chinese people migrated to larger urban cities, such as Beijing, to seek better medical care for their seriously ill children. Often these people are desperate and burdened with medical expenses. In this process, the new role that they adapt to would, most likely, affect their identity. Hence, the objective of this study is to understand how to better support them and how they cope with the outside pressure. As a volunteer in the Children’s Hope Foundation, the author can access these families and set up in-depth interviews with 6 respondents, all from different families. The author’s past observations of these families would also be used as data. In conclusion, the “caregiver identity” influences migrants to Beijing for their children in their decision-making. This further results in emotional and mental stress yet have become a role they use to cope with their current problems.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yiheng Yuan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Moving to Beijing to Take Care of My Child with a Chronic Disease: How Does It Change My Own Identity?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 369
EP  - 377
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.064
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.064
ID  - Yuan2021
ER  -