DOI: 10.17151/rlef.2016.8.6
How to Cite
López Montaño, L. M. (2016). Family care and request of a family policy to face international parental migration. Latinoamericana de Estudios de Familia, 8, 78–95. https://doi.org/10.17151/rlef.2016.8.6

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Luz María López Montaño
Universidad de Caldas
luzmaria.lopez@ucaldas.edu.co
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6262-5944

Abstract

Objective. To reflect on the tensions and conflicts in the family care of children —boys, girls and adolescents— in families from the Coffee Triangle (Colombia) with paternal and/or maternal international migration, and to propose some guidelines by way of request for policies to face this problem. Methodology. The methodology is based on the critical and gender perspective of family studies with an inductive-deductive methodology focused on the reflection from the stories of the children, the caregivers, the migrant mother and father, as well as on pertinent bibliography. Results. The results account for the tensions facing authority and conflicts over broken routines and promises in the process of care. Integrative considerations are presented. Three capacity building guidelines, and their strategies, are proposed with a wholeness and transversal perspective of macro, meso, or micro-care: implementation of family care policies, encouragement of intensive human care from the ethics of care within the family unit, and active presence, and paternal and maternal co-responsibility of the migrant party. Conclusions. International migration and the need for care entail the urgent need to implement family care policies aimed at the humanization of the lives of dependent children and adolescents, favoring gratifying and caring learnings and memories during migration.

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