ABSTRACT
This chapter contributes to the understanding that migrant care work is both gendered and intersected by class and ethnicity. The power relations affect women and men in different ways, both between the two groups and within each group. Female care workers in the UK experience the highest degree of discrimination. Many of them are subjected to rather serious discrimination and sexual harassment that in general neither migrant female care workers in Norway nor male care workers are exposed to even though there are some exceptions. Comparing the two countries, ethnicity intersects with gender and seems to strengthen the asymmetrical power relations and the degree of discrimination towards female care workers, both in UK and Norway. There are both structural and cultural reasons for female care workers in Norway not being discriminated against in the same way as UK female workers. The care workers construct their gendered pathways within the concrete contexts they experience.
