Остаряващите родители на трудови мигранти (по примера на възрастните от Белоградчик)
The Aging Parents of Labour Migrants (the Case of the Elderly People from Belogradchik)

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at marking and analysing the aspects of the impact of labour mobility on the elderly parents and relatives who have remained in Bulgaria. The subject of the study is elderly people whose children and close ones are labour migrants. The group researched is from Belogradchik in Northwest Bulgaria – a region that in the last thirty years constantly sends internal and external migrants as a result of the deep economic and social changes in our society. The article analyses some of the main problems before the elderly people in the small town resulting directly from or related to migratory processes. The group researched includes pensioners (one or two in a family); in the cases with one person in the family, usually, this is the wife. In terms of methodology, the study searches for answers to the questions related to ageing and international migration – two of the main social tendencies from the point of view of ethnology.

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