ABSTRACT
The care work we particularly have been focusing on, is the care work that some people would not even call 'care' work, because this work is mainly about assisting welfare users allocated services that support them in getting more 'choice and control', and living independent lives. The new migrant, that we found in our study, who is not primarily leaving family behind, and not a victim of the global north-south problem, but rather living an individualized life with her/his own life projects and searching for independence through a migratory process, is our contribution to a shift of the dominating user-approach to independence. The contribution concerns further contextualization, which we have done by systematically comparing cross-nationally the making of the migratory process for the study's participants in Norway and the UK. With the help of our cross-national analyses we have found Norway/UK contrasts such as settlement versus migration.
