ABSTRACT
Ms. Pham is a 25-year-old Vietnamese immigrant woman who has one 3-year-old daughter named Than. She came to the Czech Republic eight years ago and now works in the immigrant economy as an entrepreneur, the owner of a clothing shop. When her daughter was 8 months old, Ms. Pham started working 10 hours a day. Because of her incorporation into the labour market she had to look for another woman to care for little Than. Ms. Brhlíková is a 55-year-old Czech woman. She has three adult children of her own with whom she spent 12 years on parental leave. Now she is a pensioner informally working for Ms. Pham. She does care-giving work for little Than with whom she spends five days per week, from morning to evening. Than calls her “grandma” and Ms. Brhlíková feels happy, because she does not have grandchildren yet. These women of three generations are part of the global division of reproductive labour, but their situation differs from that of Filipina domestic workers in the USA, Polish domestic workers in Germany, or Czech au pairs in the UK.
