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This article examines individuals' lay understandings of moral responsibilities between adult kin members. Moral sentiments and practical judgments are important in shaping kinship responsibilities. The article discusses how judgments on requests of support can be reflexive and critical, taking into account many factors, including merit, social proximity, a history of personal encounters, overlapping commitments, and moral identity in the family. In so doing, we argue that moral responsibilities are contextual and relational. We also analyze how class, gender, and capabilities affect how individuals imagine, expect and discuss care responsibilities. We also offer a critique of social capital theory of families, suggesting that their versions of morality are instrumental, alienated, and restrictive. Although Bourdieu's concept of habitus overlaps with our proposed moral sentiments approach, the former does not adequately address moral concerns, commitments, and evaluations. The article aims to contribute to a better understanding of everyday morality by drawing upon different literatures in sociology, moral philosophy, postcommunism, and development studies.

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This article examines how children relate to birth parents after separation and reunion, which often produce negative emotions and distort family support in adolescence and adulthood. In Kyrgyzstan, large-scale migration to urban areas and overseas, widespread poverty and a weak welfare state have generated the practice of informal kinship caregiving that enables primary caregivers living in poverty to temporarily migrate, leaving their babies and young children in the care of grandparents or other close relatives. A prolonged period of time passes before birth parents and children are reunited. Attachment theory is employed to understand and explain how under informal kinship caregiving, children can have varying emotional bonds with birth parents that affect social relationships later in life. The article aims to contribute towards an understanding of the dynamics of emotions in family relationships.

américaine d'Asie centrale Jypara Abarikova, Centre régional pour les migrations et les réfugiés et Aigoul Abdoubaetova, Centre de recherche anthropologique "Jorgo", Bichkek Ancienne république d'URSS, le Kirghizistan est encadré par la Chine à l'est et au sud-est, le Kazakhstan au nord, l'Ouzbékistan à l'ouest et le Tadjikistan au sud-ouest. Extrêmement montagneux, soumis à une forte activité sismique, le pays a longtemps servi de réservoir d'uranium pour le programme nucléaire soviétique. Face aux risques naturels et à la destruction des sols, les Kirghizes, qui tirent une grande part de leurs ressources de l'élevage du bétail, sont forcés de migrer. Mais il est difficile d'échapper à la pollution dans la plus grande décharge nucléaire d'Asie centrale.