Family Policies in Latin America

From Implicit to Explicit Familialism

Natália G. D. Sátyro, Analía Minteguiaga

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031881374
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031881381
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book examines family policies in Latin America. The first half of the book adopts a thematic approach to assess how the concept of ‘family’ has changed over the last few decades, and how family policies are intrinsically linked to demographic changes, social class, family arrangements and the labour market. The second half of the book provides detailed country case studies in order to analyse family policies in action. Drawing on evidence from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay, it offers a comprehensive and comparative overview of family policies across the continent, demonstrating the various ways in which they have been impacted by political regimes and governance. The book also compares family policies in Latin America to those in Europe and North America. It will appeal to all those interested in family policy, public policy, development studies and sociology, as well as Latin America more generally.

Table of contents

• Family Policies in Latin America
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Introduction: Family Policies in Latin America in Perspective
• 2. Family Policies in Latin America in the Light of the Science of Bibliometric And Scientometric Analysis
• 3. Family Policy Evolution in Advanced Democracies and Latin American Countries Since 1900
• 4. Incremental Changes or Transformation? An fsQCA Ideal-Type Analysis of Latin American Care Regimes
• 5. “(Un)making Families”: Actual Policies Between Renewed Agendas and the Strength of Stereotypes
• 6. Time-use Surveys and Research on Family Policies in Latin America: Developments and Challenges
• 7. Transnational Social Protection: A View from Argentina
• 8. Innovations in Family Policies During the 2000s: Family Allowances and Childbirth Leave in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
• 9. Family Policies and the Mexican Welfare Regime: Between Familialism and the Right to Care
• 10. Family Policies in Brazil since Re-democratization: From Implicit to Explicit Familiarism
• 11. Family Social Policies in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay
• 12. Family Policies in Central America: Navigating the Unstable Balance Between Explicit and De Facto Measures
• Index