Research on the globalization of care work often faces the persistent challenge of building meaningful connections between the movement of care labour at a global scale and place‐based frameworks of care access and delivery. In addressing this gap in this article, we propose to take a closer look at how the care‐migration nexus produces ‘ideal’ care workers through a skills regime. Based on the case of elderly care in Singapore, in this article, we demonstrate how state institutions and private agencies attempts to fill local labour needs by producing care workers among both Singapore citizens and migrant women. This leads to contradictory strategies associated with lowering barriers for citizens to enter the elderly care industry, while raising standards and increasing pre‐training demands for migrant domestic workers to perform more ‘professional’ care work within the household. We conclude with a discussion of how these strategies can be understood as a process of ‘filtering’.

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连接护理链和护理钻石：新加坡的老年人护理技能制度

关于护理工作全球化的研究通常面临持续的挑战，即在全球范围内的护理劳动力流动与基于场所的护理获取和提供框架之间建立有意义的联系。在解决本文中的这一差距时，我们建议仔细研究护理移民关系如何通过技能制度培养“理想的”护理人员。本文以新加坡的老年人护理为例，说明了国家机构和私人机构如何通过在新加坡公民和移民妇女中生产护理人员来满足当地的劳动力需求。这导致与降低公民进入老年人护理行业的壁垒相关的策略，同时提高了标准并增加了对移民家庭佣工进行家庭内部更多“专业”护理工作的培训要求。最后，我们讨论如何将这些策略理解为“过滤”过程。