Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Domestic and care work of migrant women and the right to family life / Maria Kontos and Glenda Tibe Bonifacio -- Transnational domestic work and right to family life in international and European law / Dorothee Fings -- Au pair arrangement in Norway and transnational organization of care / Mariya Bikova -- License to care? Migrant domestic workers in Spanish employment and family policy / Elin Peterson -- Invisibility, exploitation, and paternalism : migrant Latina domestic workers and rights to family life in Barcelona, Spain / Gabriela Poblet Denti -- Growing up with migration : shifting roles and responsibilities of transnational families of Ukrainian care workers in Italy / Olena Fedyuk -- Family rights in a migratory context : whose family comes first? / Magdalena Díaz Gorfinkiel -- Live-in caregivers in Canada : servitude for promissory citizenship and family rights / Glenda Tibe Bonifacio -- Reinventing intimacy and identity : Filipina domestic workers' strategies for coping with family separation in Dubai / Julia Lausch -- Renegotiating family and work arrangements while caring abroad : Paraguayan and Peruvian women in Argentina / Aranzazu Recalde -- In the grips of work/family imbalance : local and migrant domestic workers in Slovenia / Majda Hrženjak and Mojca Pajnik -- The transnational family as a resource for political mobilization / Valerie Francisco -- Struggling to make time for family : work and family life of Korean-Chinese institutional care workers in South Korea / Seong-gee Um -- Being a member of the family? Meanings and implications in paid migrant domestic and care work in Madrid / Simone Tappert and Marianne Dobner -- "Weekend-families" of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon / Amrita Pande -- Fight to family life and reciprocity of care : prospects for care of aging migrant carers / Maria Kontos -- Epilogue : The meaning of rights to family life / Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Maria Kontos.

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.