‘I Can’t Relax in My Own Home’: Women Living in Multigenerational Households in Kazakhstan

Moldir Kabylova

Europe-Asia Studies, 2025, vol. 77, issue 8, 1313-1332

Abstract: The aim of the study is to explore the reasons for the acculturation gap in Kazakhstan between the first generation, brought up during the Soviet era, and the second generation, raised in the postsocialist, neoliberal period, and to analyse the impact of this gap on the quality of life for second-generation women. The findings present a nuanced picture of a second generation alienated from their parents by both Western ideas of individual freedom and ‘re-Islamisation’, while the first generation adhere both to Soviet values, such as secularism, and to traditional patriarchal ones, under which daughters-in-law are subjected to deeply sexist, often abusive treatment, particularly in the multigenerational households made necessary by the housing crisis. Educated, middle-class women with access to Western ideas and experience of life abroad resist their low status and seek to live independently, a decision that costs some their marriages.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2025.2544718

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