vida familiar, vínculos parentales y migración transnacional colombiana: cambios y permanencias

Fathers and mothers migration influences the lives of their relatives. They create strategies to sustain the affective ties over the distance. Remittances to guarantee the economic support and the delegated and shared authority within the extended family, lead to the redefinition of relationships and responsibilities. Families change, transnational implies transformation of parental relationships which goes back and forth toward opportunities and hopes for a better life. This situation generates conflicts and tensions and, at the same time, builds different strategies to survive here and there.