RUDE-ANTOINE, Edwige. Inter-generation rupture in a migratory situation. The issue of authority, the children’s view of their father and of paternity.. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2009, 15, 2, pp.01-16. ISSN 1677-1168.

Based on semi-directive interviews with immigrants’ young children, this article analyzes their relations with the parents, especially the issue of paternity. Results point out that, as the parents are immigrants or exiled, they find it difficult to integrate other conceptions concerning their prerogatives. They are confronted with new meanings related to their role, which can generate, for some of them, psychic disorders. The children have problems in reconstructing their families’ generation framework, while the parents deny the fact that they are immigrants, besides denying their own origin. Exile and insertion into French society can emphasize their feeling of not having an identity other than that of workers, and of not being recognized by their own children. There is, therefore, a real inter-generation rupture between those parents, who seem deprived of their paternal role, and their children.

: immigrated parents; role conflict; intergeneration rupture; loss of paternal role.

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