RESUMEN En 2020, los análisis de instituciones multilaterales predijeron que la pandemia por COVID-19 obstaculizaría las transferencias de remesas a la región de América Latina y el Caribe, no obstante, se experimentaron aumentos constantes en 2020 y 2021. La economía de remesas de Haití ha mantenido, en gran medida, su vitalidad, ayudando a las familias a superar múltiples crisis. A partir de obtenidos datos en un estudio sobre el impacto de la COVID-19 en los hogares haitianos y datos de remesas del Banco Central de Haití, este artículo examina el panorama cambiante de las remesas de Haití, con especial atención a los nuevos flujos migratorios hacia América Latina que han surgido desde el terremoto de enero de 2010. Así, se toma en cuenta el aumento de la migración haitiana a Brasil y Chile, entre otros países, durante 2010 y 2020, es que nos preguntamos: ¿Qué papel han jugado las remesas provenientes de América del Sur en los hogares haitianos antes y durante la pandemia por COVID-19?

ABSTRACT In 2020, analyses from multilateral institutions predicted that the COVID-19 pandemic would hamper remittance transfers to the Latin America and Caribbean region; yet they showed steady increases in 2020 and 2021. Haiti's remittance economy has largely maintained its vitality, helping families weather multiple crises. Drawing on data from a study of the impact of COVID-19 on Haitian households and remittance data from Haiti's Central Bank, this article examines Haiti's changing remittance landscape, with particular attention paid to new migratory flows to Latin America that have emerged since the January 2010 earthquake. Considering the increase in migration to Brazil and Chile, among other countries, between 2010 and 2020, we ask, what role have remittances from South America played in Haitian households leading up to and during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Para analisar o sistema familiar dos negros do Recôncavo da Bahia, Nordeste do Brasil, é preciso compreender a construção cultural da organização e das relações sociais, bem como as representações que as sustentam. Este artigo começa com uma discussão das categorias analíticas chave e das metodologias estrutural-funcionalistas, seus fundamentos teóricos e socioculturais e seu lugar nas análises das práticas familiares e de parentesco entre populações marginalizadas da América Latina, particularmente do Brasil. Em seguida, busca explorar os sentidos implícitos, imersos nos contextos socioétnicos, e que estruturam as linguagens, crenças e experiências familiares entre negros na região. O modelo proposto funda-se na associação entre dois níveis conceituais: o das "casas" e o da "configuração de casas" (conjunto de casas estruturadas por uma ideologia da família e do parentesco) como um sistema de significados.

Among Blacks in the Recôncavo da Bahia, Northeastern Brazil, the cultural construction of social relations and social organization, as well as the representations that sustain them must be understood in order to analyze their family systems. This article begins with a discussion of key analytical categories and structuro-functionalist methodologies - their theoretical and sociocultural foundations and their place in the analysis of family and kinship practices among marginalized people in Latin America, particularly in Brazil. It then turns to exploration of implicit meanings that are embedded in socioethnic contexts that structure languages, beliefs, and experiences of family among Blacks in that region. The model proposed is founded in the association of two conceptual levels: that of the ‘house’ and ‘configuration of houses’ (ensemble of houses structured within the ideology of kinship and family) as system of meanings.