This article argues that intersectional analyses of care work also need to include a temporal aspect. Drawing on ethnographic research on Slovak au pairs working in the UK and on interviews with both providers and employers of paid childcare in Slovakia, I examine how the temporariness of care work is created within both migrant and non-migrant settings. In particular, I demonstrate that both employers and providers conceptualise paid childcare as a temporary period in their lives and show the consequences of this conceptualisation in their valuing of care work. In both examined cases, I focus on the role of care/welfare and migration regimes in the production of temporariness in care work and argue that both providers and employers of paid care construct their involvement in domestic work as a specific life course experience. While for au pairs, working stays in the UK represent a specific transition period from adolescence to adulthood, employers in Slovakia decide to employ particular types of domestic workers in relation to the particular developmental phases of their families and households.

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互惠生、保姆和保姆：在斯洛伐克和英国将有偿护理作为一种临时的生命历程体验

本文认为，护理工作的交叉分析也需要包括时间方面。利用对在英国工作的斯洛伐克互惠生的人种学研究以及对斯洛伐克有偿儿童保育提供者和雇主的采访，我研究了在移民和非移民环境中如何创造临时性的看护工作。特别是，我证明雇主和提供者都将有偿儿童保育概念化为他们生活中的一个临时时期，并展示了这种概念化在他们对护理工作的评价中的后果。在两个研究案例中，我都关注照料/福利和移民制度在照料工作中的临时性生产中的作用，并认为有偿照料的提供者和雇主都将他们参与家政工作视为一种特定的生命历程体验。而对于互惠生，