This paper addresses the intersections between international migration, care and ageing. Through an analysis of the life stories of 24 Ecuadorian women who migrated to Spain between the years 1990–2000 and who work or have worked in the older people care sector, we aim to analyse the transnational strategies they have developed to care for their older relatives and also to explore how these women foresee their own old age and what strategies they are developing to face this stage. The results underscore the fact that while these women are capable of getting involved in transnational care arrangements to guarantee the wellbeing of their older relatives, they are faced with constraints that prevent them from achieving this objective due to their socially unequal position in terms of the intersecting axes of gender, social class and migratory status. Their main difficulties stem from limited access to geographic mobility, but also from the economic pressure they are subjected to in supporting long-term care for their older relatives. Furthermore, their own old age planning is weighed down by their work itineraries in the field of care. In some cases, transnational social protection strategies become a way to compensate for this position of social disadvantage, but they are not readily accessible to the women migrants who need them the most.

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西班牙厄瓜多尔护理人员的移民、老龄化和跨国护理安排

本文探讨了国际移民、护理和老龄化之间的交叉点。通过分析 1990 年至 2000 年间移居西班牙的 24 名厄瓜多尔妇女的生活故事，她们在老年人护理部门工作或曾经工作过，我们旨在分析她们为照顾年长亲属而制定的跨国战略并探索这些女性如何预见自己的晚年，以及她们正在制定哪些策略来面对这个阶段。结果强调了这样一个事实，即尽管这些妇女能够参与跨国护理安排以保障其年长亲属的福祉，但由于她们在相交方面的社会不平等地位，她们面临着阻碍她们实现这一目标的限制。性别、社会阶层和移民地位的轴。他们的主要困难源于有限的地域流动性，也源于他们在支持对年长亲属的长期护理方面承受的经济压力。此外，他们在护理领域的工作行程也拖累了他们自己的老年计划。在某些情况下，跨国社会保护战略成为弥补这种社会不利地位的一种方式，但最需要它们的女性移民并不容易获得它们。