Abstract This study provides insight into change processes of child residential care as depicted by ethnographic research on Estonian SOS Children’s Villages (SOS CV). Through the analysis of daily life in substitute homes, this study aimed to gain an in-depth and contextualised understanding of this deinstitutionalisation process. The changing approach of SOS CVs from institutional village-life-based to community-based approaches where nonbiological children are raised is discussed. The interpretation of said changes as deinstitutionalisation and their complicated nature is outlined. The latter is attributed to the divergent effects of activities. The findings ultimately lead to the conclusion that such change processes result in both challenges and difficulties to the Estonian substitute care system.

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爱沙尼亚的去机构化方式。SOS 儿童村的民族志研究经验

摘要 本研究提供了对爱沙尼亚 SOS 儿童村 (SOS CV) 的民族志研究所描绘的儿童寄宿护理变化过程的洞察。通过对替代家庭日常生活的分析，本研究旨在深入了解这种去机构化过程。讨论了 SOS CV 的变化方法，从基于村庄生活的机构方法到基于社区的方法，其中抚养非生物儿童。概述了将上述变化解释为去机构化及其复杂性质。后者归因于活动的不同影响。调查结果最终得出的结论是，这种变化过程给爱沙尼亚替代护理系统带来了挑战和困难。