This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and Ukraine.

Mariya Bikova, University of Bergen, NorwayMagdalena Díaz Gorfinkiel, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, SpainMarianne Dobner, International Organization for Migration, AustriaOlena Fedyuk, University of Strathclyde, United KingdomValerie Francisco, University of Portland, United States of AmericaDorothee Frings, Goethe University, GermanyMajda Hr enjak, Peace Institute, SloveniaJulia Lausch, University of Wyoming, United States of AmericaMojca Pajnik, University of Ljubljana and Peace Institute, SloveniaAmrita Pande, University of Cape Town, South AfricaElin Peterson, Stockholm University, SwedenGabriela Poblet Denti, University of Barcelona, SpainAranzazu Recalde, McGill University, CanadaSimone Tappert, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, SwitzerlandSeong-gee Um, University of Montreal, Canada

1. Introduction: Domestic and Care Work of Migrant Women and the Right to Family life; Maria Kontos; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio I. FRAMING LEGALITIES, EMPLOYMENT, AND FAMILY RIGHTS 2. Transnational Domestic Work and Right to Family Life in International and European Law; Dorothee Frings 3. Au pair Arrangement in Norway and Transnational Organization of Care; Mariya Bikova 4. License to Care? Migrant Domestic Workers in Spanish Employment and Family Policy; Elin Peterson 5. Invisibility, Exploitation and Paternalism: Migrant Latina Domestic Workers and Rights to Family Life in Barcelona, Spain; Gabriela Poblet Denti II. PUBLIC DISCOURSE, FAMILY SEPARATION AND REUNIFICATION 6. Growing Up with Migration: Shifting Roles and Responsibilities of Transnational Families of Ukrainian Careworkers in Italy; Olena Fedyuk 7. Family Rights in a Migratory Context: Whose Family Comes First?; Magdalena Díaz Gorfinkiel 8. Live-in Caregivers in Canada: Servitude for Promisory Citizenship and Family Rights; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio III. REMOTE MOTHERING, SURVIVAL STRATEGIES, AND MOBILIZATION 9. Reinventing Intimacy and Identity: Filipina Domestic Workers' Strategies for Coping with Family Separation in Dubai; Julia Lausch 10. Renegotiating Family and Work Arrangements: Paraguayan and Peruvian Domestic Workers in Argentina; Aranzazu Recalde 11. In the Grips of Work/Family Imbalance: Local and Migrant Domestic Workers in Slovenia; Majda Hr enjak; Mojca Pajnik 12. Transnational Family as Resource for Political Mobilization; Valerie Francisco IV. THE METAPHOR OF 'FAMILY MEMBER' 13. Struggling to Make Time for Family: Work and Family Life of Korean-Chinese Institutional Care Workers in South Korea; Seong-gee Um 14. Being a Member of the Family? Meanings and Implications in Paid Migrant Domestic and Care Work in Madrid; Marianne Dobner; Simone Tappert 15. 'Weekend families' of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon; Amrita Pande 16. Right to Family Life and Reciprocity of Care: Prospects for Care ofAging Migrant Carers; Maria Kontos Epilogue: The Meaning of Rights to Family Life; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio; Maria Kontos