Caring for t[]e inheritance

Elderly care, inheritance rights, and subjective tension in a village from Northern Dobruja

Bibliographic Data

ID3641000
AuthorsMihai Popa (0000-0002-3782-7525, 1 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Advokatenweg 36 06114 Halle/Saale Germany, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume58
Issue1
Pages107-122
Publication date2013-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Ethnographica Hungarica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1216-9803 • E-ISSN: 1588-2586
PublisherAkademiai Kiado Zrt (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1556/aethn.58.2013.1.8
OpenAlexW2156241220
LanguageEN
References cited14

In this paper I show how inheritance is exchanged for old age care in a village from Northern Dobruja, Romania. The elderly have to insure their old age care while managing relations with their children who are not always able to provide care. In Romania internal and international migration has made future prospects of care in the family uncertain. While according to the regulations of the Civil Code the children are the almost certain beneficiaries of their parents' property, local arrangements forinter vivostransfers can subvert these regulations and work according to an alternative principle justifying inheritance other than legal filiation, namely care. By discussing one complex case I show how the tensions associated with inheritance and care obligations can illustrate more generally subjective experiences of old age in present-day rural Romania

Biology · Child care · Civil code · Genealogy · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Computer Science · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Medicine · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Nursing

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