ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that a focus on actors and practices that enable the movement of migrant workers is relevant to understanding how labour migration is controlled. It traces the mobility of live-in care workers and the practices and connections that are crucial for their mobility and migration. The chapter examines the migration infrastructures that facilitate live-in care labour migration, the ‘institutions, networks, and people’, and technologies and material means that facilitate movement from one point to another. Home care agencies offering all-inclusive home care play a key role in shaping live-in care by managing the spatial and temporal aspects of care workers’ geographical mobility: that is, the (im)mobilities required to enable a live-in care arrangement. The chapter shows that care workers’ comfort in their journeys depends not only on their own financial means and access to various transport services but also on whether care recipients are willing to cover their travel costs and on care agents’ organisation of travel forms.
