Миграция на българите в Кипър и трансродителство
Bulgarian migration to Cuprus and transparenting

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to observe the transparenting as one of the most important problems related to Bulgarian mobility and migration to Cyprus. Generations of Bulgarian children grew and grow up – raised from a distance by their migrant parents through Skype and mobile phones, while staying in Bulgaria with their grandparents or relatives. The subject of this study is remittance-led migration, when the actors adopt a strategy of short-term migration to Cyprus only as a way for incomes stabilization. The remittance-led migration leads to separation of spouses, children and parents, which builds transnational households. What are the critical factors that ensure long-term separation between migrating parents and children left behind; what happens “there” where the parents are, and “here” where the children are: those are the main questions analyzed in the article. The author concludes that these “young adults” who acquired responsibilities, untypical for their age, are put at risk of sinking into the same trap of subordinations as their parents. If the value of working for pocket money replaces the value of education and development of personal qualities and skills, the horizons of expectation and possibilities could be shortened for these children – contrary to all their parent’s strategies and aims.

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