Family relationships between binationals in times of pandemic

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing family relationships of binational couples during the pandemic.
Due to the border closure measures imposed by the States to minimize the spread of
COVID-19, several families composed of people of different nationalities were deprived of
47 DOI: https://doi.org/10.46901/revistadadpu.i15.p47-66
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family life, especially couples without formal ties. This study adopted a legal-sociological
methodology. The juridical-sociological methodology used consists of an analysis of the
bibliography and of a study of the laws relating to the theme in force in some countries.
The study traces a broaden concept of family based on affection and confronts the market
aspect attributed to human relations, based on the globalizing and capitalist bias. The current
fear of death experienced by the population due to the volatile nature of the transmission
of coronavirus have been making people rethinking their family relationships not by the
perspective of consumptiveness, but by affection. Being with family promotes emotional
stability, since the family environment becomes a locus of security. However, State policies
impede the coexistence of these families, generating existential damage.