Abstract

Based on research focused on migratory mobilities in the American continent, the text seeks to explore and reflect on epistemologies and research methodologies that are interested in affective bonds - forms of care and friendship - generated in situations and contexts of migration in which children and adolescents are currently enrolled, among them, school contexts with the presence of migrant diversity. The objective is to highlight the role of these ties in human mobilities and, above all, in the frameworks created for their investigation in a time in which hostilities are unfolding that have detrimental consequences for migrant children and their families. For this purpose, methodological and epistemological aspects of descriptive studies, of an arts-based research and of the ethnographic approach are presented. The methodology used is qualitative and the design is documentary.

Keywords
childhood; migrations; methodology; epistemology; affective dimension