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And post EU Enlargement, there was a significant growth in these nationals working as au pairs in the UK (Torre, 2008). Until 2014 Romanians and Bulgarians working as au pairs were required to hold an accession worker card. For these nationalities au pairing was at this time considered a category of employment, and they were subject to the same restrictions as other workers: they could work only for the employer named on their 42 Migration and Care Labour accession worker card and were not free to change employer.

It was nevertheless the au pair that was monitored and regulated not the host family, and this was true for both immigration controls and au pair placement agencies. In practice, there seems to have been considerable abuse of the au pair system by host families. , 2006). Moreover, au pair agencies reported considerable difficulties in managing the assumptions of whiteness of both host families and au pairs. The latter caused particular problems as generally, unlike au pairs’, host families’ photographs were not required for agency registration (Anderson, 2007).

How far do the costs associated with ethical recruitment make migrant workers less attractive to the employers, and if so, how far does this drive them underground in the search for work? How far does the facilitation of return migration undermine rights to citizenship and settlement? How far will different actors agree – states, public and private employers and recruitment agencies (Shah, 2010)? Indeed, how far could this regulation be extended to workers who are recruited after arrival in their country of destination, or even to all care workers?

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