"She Gave us Family Life": Vietnamese Immigrant Families and their Czech Nannies Redefin












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            * Adéla Souralová
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            Abstrakt

            Vietnamese families in the Czech Republic often recruit Czech women to look after their ch
            the context of the dominant scholarship, this is quite a unique case of care work in which
            are immigrants, while the employees are women of the host country. At the same time, it is

            child care solution in the context of the Czech Republic, where only 1-2% of the populatio
            private child care. Drawing upon qualitative research conducted with Czech nannies, Vietna
            and their children, the article interprets the experience of Vietnamese immigrants with pa

            as an outcome of the post-migratory redefinition of family relations. In so doing, the pap
            how family ties and child care arrangements are negotiated vis-?-vis the new life in the h

            where the different "normal caring biographies" are supported by the common-sense understa
            care and/or mothering should be, by social policies, and by everyday practice. I argue tha
            of the nannies is an essential part of these negotiations. I respond to the following ques

            the role of delegated child care in post-migratory family arrangements? What are the motiv
            consequences of recruiting Czech nannies in the context of Vietnamese immigrants' family l
            paper I put forward the thesis that the post-migratory challenges of family life lead to t

            nannies, which further challenges the family lives of both nannies and immigrants. The art
            on the negotiations which result in hiring the nanny and the negotiations originating in t
            Czech nannies.


            Klíčová slova
            nanny; family ties; Vietnamese immigrants; Czech Republic


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