translate English to French: A distinction was emerging that would be maintained and vigorously debated in the years to come and, to a degree, continues to inform the debate on sponsorship and family reunification today: should family reunification involve the relatively extended family (brothers, sisters, close relatives), or should it be limited to the immediate family (spouses, direct ascendants and descendants)?27 Sponsorship of close family members (i.e., the relatively extended family) was the object of a lively debate at the end of the 1950s and the early 1960s.
On voit donc apparaître une distinction qui sera maintenue et vivement débattue dans les années qui suivront et qui, d'une certaine façon, conditionne encore le débat sur le parrainage et la réunification des familles : le principe de la réunification des familles doit-il concerner la famille relativement élargie (frères, soeurs, parents proches) ou être restreint à la famille immédiate (conjoints, ascendants et descendants directs)27?