Análisis de caso sobre migración de retorno con familias de la parroquia rural Guapán: cuando los padres retornan a casa, ¿cómo se reconfigura la realidad social de la familia?

Abstract

To analyze the reconfiguration of the social reality of family institution in the context of return migration, imposes a challenge to research proposals that pretend to make a comprehensive study of the subject; especially when the existing scientific literature is mostly developed in the field of economic studies. The contribution of this research is to display the items that reconfigure the social reality of the nuclear family, when parents return to their interaction context. This, in relation to the significance of family, the roles interaction, the influence of the extended family and community in the rural area. For this purpose, the theoretical framework is based on theories of microsociology and return migration. The methodology is developed within the approach of several qualitative case analysis, using the retrospective analysis of trajectories method. The results reveal reconfigurations on differentiated circumstances, in the families participating in the study; thus, the significance is reconfigured on affective relationships; the roles of interaction in relations of power, gender relations and economic relations; while the extended family and the community have acted as a mechanism of support and social coercion.