'With its fine-grained ethnographic detail, skilfully presented in vivid prose, this book
illuminates every aspect of the hopes, fantasies and frustrations that constitute the frequently …

For adolescents, to become au pairs in the United States is a popular, yet unique form of
cultural exchange: For a limited time, young women and men aged 18–26 live with a host …

This chapter argues that it is important to take all recorded motivations at face value and try
to identify some logic behind apparently diverse reasons to migrate. The economic and …

Existing studies explain au-pairing as an economic strategy used by East-European women
to cope with post-socialist transformation. The aim of this paper is to broaden this …

This collection has discussed the experiences of au pairs and the regulation of au pairing in
seven different countries, on three different continents and over the course of a century. The …

V tomto príspevku sa zamýšľam nad tým, prečo britské rodiny používajú au pair ako
alternatívnu starostlivosť o dieťa a čo vadí slovenským au pair na britských matkách. Táto …

The au pair job has its very own challenges. To a large extent, this is due to the fact that au
pairs work in a very intimate, and at the same time, foreign setting; they move in with an …

Was motiviert junge Erwachsene zu einem Au-pair-Aufenthalt in den USA? Was erleben sie
als Kinderbetreuungsperson in ihrer Gastfamilie? Und wie ist zu erklären, dass einige …

While the service demands of au pair programs have come under much scrutiny, less visible
are the ways in which au pair positions are utilized as a career transformation strategy for …

Die USA sind aus zwei Perspektiven ein klassisches „Au-pair-Land “: Für junge Erwachsene
aus Europa sind die USA eine der beliebtesten Destinationen für ihr Vorhaben. Auf der …