Separación y revinculación familiar: el lugar de los vínculos en residencias de protección

This article presents a reflection and analysis on the problem of the placement of children in residential care in Chile. Analyze the practices and institutional discourses that characterize the functioning of these contexts based on the charity paradigm and problematize the experience of emotional separation as an event that hinders the promotion and restitution of the bonds between a child, his family of origin and the community of belonging.