Description
Based on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork (2017/2018) in the central and northern part of Montenegro, in this paper I explore how everyday child and elderly care is being organized in Montenegro by looking at who provides what type of care. I suggest that there are two main care organizing mechanisms in the society – kin ties and state provided services or the absence of them.While in some parts of society elderly care is still linked to patrilocal values of care implying the idea that son and his family is responsible for parents, the ethnographic material suggests that nowadays daughters are recognized as care givers too. And sometimes seen as even more successful than sons. State provided nursing houses are perceived as morally wrong option and are seen as low quality of service. In childcare, on contrary, both state service (e.g. kindergartens) and kin ties (e.g. grandparents) are combined. In the paper I argue that state and family provided care are not competing mechanisms, rather they supplement each other and provide successful organization of care.
| Period | 2 Apr 2019 |
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| Event title | Rīga Stradiņš University International Interdisciplinary Conference on Social Sciences: PLACES |
| Event type | Conference |
| Organiser | Rīga Stradiņš University |
| Location | Riga, LatviaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |