What challenges do young migrant women face in care work, and how do the politics of care capture their most personal experiences? In this text, the author shares her story of working as an au pair, exploring the emotional complexities accompanying gendered and geopolitically predetermined care work.

Care work, by definition, refers to activities performed for the physical, psychological, and emotional well-being of another person (s).

My mother used to help me raise my kid. Mother is a light manufacturing engineer. She hasn’t worked in her own profession since she took maternity leave.