ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a range of factors that influence the uneven mobility of live-in care workers, their ‘motilities’, and presents the contexts that delimit or enable migration for live-in care work. It explains how care workers learn to look for a job in live-in care work and how information on job opportunities circulates. The chapter describes care workers’ perceptions that leaving their villages for live-in care work is nothing unusual and yet affects and changes the places they come from. Hanson and Pratt claim that women in female-dominated work tend to find jobs through other women in their social networks rather than through formal channels. Informal recruitment can provide an insider’s view about what to expect and information about the norms of care work, salary, and other aspects of the job. Whether and how fast would-be care workers find employment also depends on who they know that can facilitate mobility and advise them how to find a job.
