Пространства на затваряне и динамики на институционализация: семейната грижа за хора с увреждания в България
Spaces of Confinement and Dynamics of Institutionalization: Family Care for People with Disabilities in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The main focus of the article are the families of children with disabilities in Bulgaria as spaces that generate and affirm institutional culture. We conceptualise them as situated in a complex of legacies and current conditions that are deeply disabling in their very essence. It is these elements that drive families of children with disabilities in Bulgaria to almost invariably take on basic institutional characteristics. We highlight the dynamics and interactions of the traumatic images of the legacy of state socialism, the actual barriers during the transition period, the coping strategies chosen by families and, ultimately, the grim effects with regard to the affirmation and implementation of the idea of independent living for people with disabilities in Bulgaria.

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