Au Pairs, Nannies and Babysitters : Paid Care as a Temporary Life Course Experience in Slovakia and in the UK

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0141778919848636" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0141778919848636</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0141778919848636" target="_blank" >10.1177/0141778919848636</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Au Pairs, Nannies and Babysitters : Paid Care as a Temporary Life Course Experience in Slovakia and in the UK

Original language description

This article argues that intersectional analyses of care work also need to include a temporal aspect. Drawing on ethnographic research on Slovak au pairs working in the UK and on interviews with both providers and employers of paid childcare in Slovakia, I examine how the temporariness of care work is created within both migrant and non-migrant settings. In particular, I demonstrate that both employers and providers conceptualise paid childcare as a temporary period in their lives and show the consequences of this conceptualisation in their valuing of care work. In both examined cases, I focus on the role of care/welfare and migration regimes in the production of temporariness in care work and argue that both providers and employers of paid care construct their involvement in domestic work as a specific life course experience. While for au pairs, working stays in the UK represent a specific transition period from adolescence to adulthood, employers in Slovakia decide to employ particular types of domestic workers in relation to the particular developmental phases of their families and households.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Feminist Review

ISSN

0141-7789

e-ISSN

1466-4380

Volume of the periodical

122

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

80-94

UT code for WoS article

000487668100006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85073206318