This book analyses the changing face of work, gender equality and citizenship in Europe. Drawing on in-depth research conducted in nine different countries, it focuses on the discourses, social relations and political processes that surround paid domestic labour. In doing so, it rethinks the vital relationship between this kind of employment, the formal and informal citizenship of migrant workers and their employers, and the cultural and political value of gender equality. Approaching these as fluid, complex and interrelated phenomena that change according to local context, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, geographers, anthropologists and gender studies scholars.

Paid Migrant Domestic Labour, Gender Equality, and Citizenship in a Changing Europe: An Introduction Neoliberal Citizenship and Domestic Service in Finland: A Return to a Servant Society? The Au Pair Scheme as ‘Cultural Exchange’: Effects of Norwegian Au Pair Policy on Gender Equality and Citizenship Paid Domestic Work in Spain: Gendered Framings of Work and Care in Policies on Social Citizenship Gendered Work and Citizenship: Diverse Experiences of Au Pairing in the UK From Intimate Relations to Citizenship? Au Pairing and the Potential for Citizenship in Norway Citizenship and Maternalism in Migrant Domestic Labour: Filipina Workers and Their Employers in Amsterdam and Rome Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in Gender-Equal Norway: A Win–Win Arrangement? The Intouchables: Care Work, Homosociality and National Fantasy Unequal Fatherhoods: Citizenship, Gender, and Masculinities in Outsourced ‘Male’ Domestic Work Buying and Selling Gender Equality: Concluding Reflections