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RUIZ, Erly J.. Affections in Diaspora. Towards a venezuelan-style Sociology of Friendship. ESPACIO ABIERTO [online]. 2024, vol.33, n.4, pp.122-141.  Epub 06-Feb-2025. ISSN 1315-0006.  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13887547.

The world of everyday life acquires its stability through the intersection between forgetfulness and the delegation of discernment and experience. Reality is a creative situation, and, precisely for this reason, the migratory experience presents, with all its flaws, an opportunity to return to oneself, to reveal oneself through the discovery of what is foreign. The following article explores the formation of Venezuelan friendship through a qualitative methodology and a microsociological approach. It begins with the importance of the world of everyday life in the construction of identity through the thought of Schutz, Berger & Luckmann and Goffman. Next, a succinct overview of friendship is presented from its relationship with love to the ethical disposition in the work of Luhmann, Bauman and Aristotle. Subsequently, the construction of Venezuelan friendship is analyzed through 26 in-depth interviews with Venezuelans who have been outside the country for more than five years. It is concluded that the friendship lived in the Venezuelan way tends towards loving co-responsibility, promoting the development of spontaneity, the liberation of self-censorship and, in the case of migrants, the possibility of being part of a support network in the absence of state institutions. nationals dedicated to it.

Palabras clave : Ethics; Family; Friendship; Love; Migration; Venezuela.

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