Posledice primanja i slanja doznaka na odnose između majke i deteta u urbanoj Srbiji
The Lost Matriarch: The Consequences of Remittances on Mother-Child Relationships in Urban Serbia

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the consequences of remittances on kinship dynamics, especially on the mother-child relationship in a specific, post-conflict and post-communist context of urban Serbia. By framing remittances in a particular historical and social context, we will demonstrate how for ex-Yugoslav urban middle class remittances have become a gift that threatens to change the power within mother-child relationship, with a profound effect on the mothers left behind. Instead of bringing financial relief and security to elderly mothers, remittances cause them to make tremendous sacrifices to compensate for this gift and to affirm their social status and their identity as mothers.

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