Herrera Gioconda, Espinosa Maria Cristina Carrillo, Lara-Reyes Ruth
FLACSO Quito Ecuador.
Int Migr. 2022 Oct 17. doi: 10.1111/imig.13070.
This article examines narratives of transnational belonging and transnational practices of care between a group of Ecuadorian migrants in Spain and Italy and their families and friends in Ecuador during the first semester of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Drawing on the concepts of transnational affective economies (Wilding et al., , 2020, 23, 639), the circulation of care (Baldassar & Merla, . Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, London, New York, 2014) and transnational forms of belonging (Boccagni & Baldassar, , 2015, 16, 73), we look at how despite their still precarious social and labour conditions in destination-which were exacerbated during the pandemic-Ecuadorian migrants activated different forms of belonging and transnational care. Findings reveal that emotions had a crucial role in enabling the transnational circulation of care between family members and friends and a revival of migrants' sense of national belonging. We argue that the crisis generated by COVID-19 was the occasion for migrants to revisit their sense of belonging as well as their awareness of south-north inequalities since they experienced the crisis simultaneously in Ecuador, Spain and Italy. At the same time, emotions such as fear, anxiety, anger and concern for their families and communities triggered subjective understandings of local and global inequalities that reaffirmed their migration project.
本文考察了2020年新冠疫情第一学期期间，一群在西班牙和意大利的厄瓜多尔移民与他们在厄瓜多尔的家人和朋友之间的跨国归属感叙事和跨国关怀实践。借鉴跨国情感经济（怀尔丁等人，2020年，第23卷，第639页）、关怀的流通（巴尔达萨尔和梅拉，《劳特利奇泰勒与弗朗西斯集团，伦敦，纽约，2014年》）以及跨国归属感形式（博卡尼和巴尔达萨尔，2015年，第16卷，第73页）等概念，我们探讨了尽管厄瓜多尔移民在目的地国的社会和劳动条件仍然不稳定——在疫情期间更是加剧——但他们如何激活了不同形式的归属感和跨国关怀。研究结果表明，情感在促成家庭成员和朋友之间关怀的跨国流通以及恢复移民的民族归属感方面发挥了关键作用。我们认为，新冠疫情引发的危机为移民提供了契机，让他们重新审视自己的归属感以及对南北不平等的认识，因为他们在厄瓜多尔、西班牙和意大利同时经历了这场危机。与此同时，恐惧、焦虑、愤怒以及对家人和社区的担忧等情感引发了对地方和全球不平等的主观理解，这些理解重申了他们的移民计划。
