Navigating the COVID-19 crisis: exploring care arrangements and gendered inequalities for migrant women in transnational families in Berlin

Figures & data

Table 1. Sample sociodemographic data of the interviewed migrant women.

	Name^a	Age (years)	Origin	Highest degree	Job status in 2020	Residency duration in Germany	Number of children and their age (years)	Local household^b	Partner’s origin
1	Angelina	35	Eastern Europe 1	Bachelor’s degree	Unemployed	Since 2018	1 (4)	Two-parent family, married	Eastern Europe 1
2	Sandra	36	Eastern Europe 1	Technical/Professional diploma	Employed	Since 2009	2 (12, 5)	Two-parent family, separated, daughter lives with ex-partner	German
3	Karen	43	Latin America	Master’s degree	Self-employed	Since 2016	1 (5)	Two-parent family	Western Europe
4	Cecilia	47	Western Europe	Master’s degree	Unemployed	Since 2014	1 (5)	Two-parent family	German
5	Maria	39	Eastern Europe 2, German citizen	Master’s degree	Unemployed	Since 2001	1 (3)	Single/ Two-parent family	Caribbean

^a All names were changed.

^b All participating women had transnational family ties and engaged to different degrees in forms of transborder care exchanges with their family members