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Vietnamese immigrant families in the Czech Republic oftenrecruit Czech women to look after their children. Seen in thecontext of the dominant scholarship, this is a quite uniquecase in the fi eld of care work where the employers areimmigrants, while the employees are women of the host country.Drawing upon fi fteen in-depth interviews with Czech nannies,this article analyses the motivations to become a nanny in aVietnamese family. It employs the perspective of the lifecourse in order to understand what changes in women’sbiographies lie behind these decisions. The author focuses onthe transitions in nannies’ life cycles at the crossroads ofthree aspects of their biographies: the family caregiving role,position in the labour market and the welfare state, and themeaning of paid caregiving. By looking at how women experienceand attach meaning to transitions and phases in their life,which lead them to take a gendered job as a nanny, the authorsheds light on the dynamics of the complex processes (takingplace in families, the labour market, or the welfare state)that constitute these changes. This article—through theanalysis of the motivations to become nannies—illuminates thebroader issues of how gendered biographies are shaped underparticular socio-economic and historical conditions, as well asby particular cultural expectations of caregiving.

Paid Caregiving in the Gendered Life Course: A Study of Czech Nannies in Vietnamese Immigrant Families