LA INFANCIA COMO UNA PREOCUPACIÓN SOCIAL EN AMÉRICA. EL CASO DEL INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL AMERICANO DE PROTECCIÓN DE LA INFANCIA (1927-1949)

Abstract

This article seeks to contribute to a historical problematisation of the construction process of child protection systems in America during the first half of twentieth century. It’s based on a review and systematization of the studies compiled in the Bulletin of the Instituto Internacional Americano de Protección de la Infancia, between 1927 and 1949, which are part of the circuit of dominating visions on America’s development and modernization, and that place family and childhood at the heart of the debate. Specifically, it is a question of a particular combination of productions generating regulations and cultural images that will inform the metaphors used to define and intervene working class’s childhood and family in this context and that will be part of the specific model of “goods citizens” in America.