ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to analyze the normative level of the ethnomorality of care in the translocal communities of Kluczbork and Końskie. It opens with a short overview of the social norms regarding care held by the Polish population, followed by a comparative analysis of the attitudes of the local populations researched through survey and in-depth interviews. Most of the research participants believed the familial model of elderly care was desirable, and they often declared to adhere to it. The chapter presents the values (such as tradition, intergenerational solidarity or reciprocity) on which the obligation to personal care provision is based. The sources of critical attitudes regarding care homes are identified, as well as the conditions, under which this type of care is declared acceptable. Migrants’ moral beliefs, as a part of ethnomorality of care, are shaped (among other factors) by the Polish and British cultures of care. The acquisition by migrants and their parents of novel ideas concerning what is proper in the area of caring can be interpreted as a migratory social remittance. The chapter also offers an overview of the changing beliefs regarding the obligation of elderly persons to give, not only receive care.
