ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at analysing specifically the tensions that can develop in relationships based on the cash-for-care scheme model, when this involves a migrant worker directly employed and/or managed by a disabled or older person. It reveals large variations in the ways disabled people and their care workers are negotiating their concrete everyday life relationships. The employer is the one hiring the care worker and paying their wages. The degree of professionalism is related to whether the care workers describe the relationship with the user as a friendship or as a working relationship or both. Related to care workers' working conditions it means that the worker leaves the service user if there are alternative opportunities for work. The care workers' role is, of course, influenced by the users' expectations of friendship, working relationship and/or the wish for a servant. The care workers in Norway and the UK would benefit from more focused and relevant training and guidance in their work.
