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., International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2020, 23, 639), the circulation of care (Baldassar & Merla, Transnational families, migration and the circulation of care: understanding mobility and absence in family life. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, London, New York, 2014) and transnational forms of belonging (Boccagni & Baldassar, Emotions, Space and Society, 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.

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情绪、不平等和危机：COVID-19 大流行期间欧洲的厄瓜多尔移民

本文考察了 2020 年 COVID-19 大流行第一学期期间西班牙和意大利的一群厄瓜多尔移民与其在厄瓜多尔的家人和朋友之间的跨国归属感和跨国护理实践的叙述。借鉴跨国情感经济的概念(Wilding et al., International Journal of Cultural Studies , 2020, 23, 639), the circulation of care (Baldassar & Merla, Transnational families, migration and the circulation of care: understanding mobility and absence in family life . Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, London, New York, 2014) 和跨国归属形式（Boccagni & Baldassar, Emotions, Space and Society, 2015, 16, 73)，我们研究厄瓜多尔移民如何在目的地仍然不稳定的社会和劳动条件下——在大流行病期间恶化——如何激活不同形式的归属感和跨国关怀。调查结果表明，情绪在促进家庭成员和朋友之间的跨国关怀流动以及移民民族归属感的恢复方面起着至关重要的作用。我们认为，由于移民在厄瓜多尔、西班牙和意大利同时经历了这场危机，因此 COVID-19 引发的危机是移民重新审视他们的归属感以及他们对南北不平等意识的机会。同时，恐惧、焦虑等情绪，