The pandemic exacerbated the already inequitable conditions to which Venezuelan migrants are exposed in Latin America. Influenced by global policies of public health control, the Ecuadorian government imposed numerous constraints on internal and external mobilities to reinforce its restrictive shift of at least the past decade, thereby limiting migrant regularization and curtailing the guarantee of the right to seek refuge. In line with Hyndman and Giles’ concepts of the embodied feminist geopolitics of waiting and (im)mobilities this article examines how, in the context of restrictive state policies, social hostility and nationalism, heightened by a public health discourse emphasizing the threat of contagion embodied in migrants and a new border regime scenario, Venezuelan migrant women have deployed multiple strategies of self-care to preserve their lives. Such strategies including reverse migration to their home country, even when it meant returning to places that are even more precarious but perhaps safer for them. It also explores how Ecuador’s institutional responses to the pandemic affected Venezuelan migrants and their action capacity.

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“Sentir su camino”：厄瓜多尔大流行期间委内瑞拉移民妇女回国的流动性

这场大流行加剧了委内瑞拉移民在拉丁美洲本已不公平的处境。受全球公共卫生控制政策的影响，厄瓜多尔政府对内部和外部流动施加了诸多限制，强化了至少过去十年的限制性转变，从而限制了移民合法化并削弱了寻求庇护权利的保障。根据海德曼和贾尔斯关于等待和（不）流动的具体女权主义地缘政治的概念，本文探讨了在限制性国家政策、社会敌意和民族主义的背景下，强调传染威胁的公共卫生话语如何加剧在移民和新边境制度的情况下，委内瑞拉移民妇女采取了多种自我保健策略来保护自己的生命。这些策略包括逆向移民回祖国，即使这意味着返回更不稳定但对他们来说可能更安全的地方。它还探讨了厄瓜多尔对这一流行病的机构应对措施如何影响委内瑞拉移民及其行动能力。