This book is a complete guide for au-pairs around the world. It guides young people through the whole process of becoming and being au-pair. It explains who au-pair, host family and local representatives are, what are their duties and responsibilities, requirements to become au-pair in Europe (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Italy, UK and Ireland, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Netherlands), USA, Canada, Australia, China and South Africa, requirements for visa and health insurance. Book also contains stories for children, recepies, games you can play with them, how to deal with problems with children, list of medical problems and how to treat them, there are also tips and recommendations au-pair's free time, where to go, where to meet people, what places to visit on free weekends, where to book the cheepest flights, hotel room and rent-a-car wherewer you go in the world. In the end there is also the list of 165 au-pair agencies around the world.

This book is devoted to the lives of au pairs, their leisure as well as their work time.

Far from being the preserve of middle-class women from Northern Europe, au pairing is now booming worldwide. This collection, the first dedicated entirely to examining the lives of au pairs, traces their experiences across five continents showing how this form of domestic labour and childcare is thriving in the twenty-first century.

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

This book brings together two key themes that have not been addressed together previously in any sustained way: domestic service and colonization. Existing studies of domestic service rarely make mention of colonization, but colonization offers a rich and exciting new paradigm for analysing the phenomenon of domestic labour by non-family workers, paid and otherwise. Scholars in diverse fields and disciplines here share new and stimulating insights on the various connections between domestic employment and the processes of colonization, both past and present, in a range of original essays.

Silenced Angels: The Medical, Legal and Social Aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome delves into the realms of child abuse that has never been explored before in such detail. The book examines how the physical assault of violent shaking on a young body can lead to a lifetime of despair or even death. Every important detail of this tragic form of child abuse is analyzed, providing the reader a more definitive understanding of the condition known as SBS. This is the first book written exclusively about SBS, which is 100% preventable. SBS cases can be frequently misdiagnosed and are more frequently under-investigated and poorly prosecuted, leading to a sense of injustice among families and child abuse prevention advocates. The author breaks through the barriers of miscomprehension, misdiagnosis, and misrepresentation that typically lead to further tragedy and injustice in SBS-related cases. Advocates for child abuse prevention will gain greater information about SBS to further their cause of establishing hospital and community-based prevention and education programs. Parents and family members of SBS victims will find this book indispensable when seeking medical and legal assistance with their cases.

Mobilities within the European Union (EU) have changed significantly since the classical intra-regional migrations of the 1950s–1970s. After a period of reduced, less visible flows in the 21st century mobilities increased again, first linked to EU expansion towards the East, and from 2008, with renewed South-North flows following the impact of the Great Recession on Southern European countries. It is in this context that the current volume explores how these recent migrations reflect new and more complex patterns of mobility, increasingly uncertain and unstable, involving both natives and naturalised migrants. It also seeks to unpack the multiple connections between these new migration systems and other systems affecting social protection, gender and citizenship, and how these intersect with other factors such as class, age, race and ethnicity. The different chapters of the book examine this covering a wide variety of cases, including intra-EU flows from Portugal and Spain, recent Spanish and Latin American migrants in London, Paris and Brussels, and Romanian migration to the UK and France, thus adding to its richness. This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Gender Studies, Public Policy, and Politics. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

You will be moved by the heartrending stories of Elisheva and Sarah, separated by distance, living wildly different lives in the poverty-stricken Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem and the wealthy mansion in Londons Hampstead, brought together by destinyboth stirring examples of the true Jewish mother. You will love adventurous Dovid Moyer, the orphaned Bar Mitzva boy, whose courage and inventiveness will delight you and your children. Running away from home he finds himself in saving others. You will laugh with Odel, the funniest Hungarian cook in fiction, whose motto in life is pray and eat , eat and pray and you will be moved as she recounts her astonishing adventures on her flight from Communist Hungary. You will admire the brilliant and rich Charles Kalman, dignified in adversity and always willing to learn and change. You will be captivated by Reb Yitzchok the tailor, a character from bygone times , who does more for his neighbours with his simplicity and untutored goodness than many a psychiatrist. You will share in the dangerous but exhilarating drive from Lod airport with a taxi driver more used to the war torn desert paths of Sinai. You will live through an autopsy performed on a still-born baby and the storm it arouses. A wide panorama of Jewish life, past and present, seen through many enthralling stories and anecdotes will delight readers of all ages. This brilliant portrayal of the lives of young orphans and a despairing widow is shot through with humour and hope the trust and hope which have sustained Jews throughout history.

This book explores “self-searching migrants,” a new group of indefinitely globally mobile people whose purpose of overseas stay is the search of true self and the work they really want to do, using Japanese trans-Pacific sojourners as the case study. Utilizing testimonies collected from interviews with Japanese migrants in their twenties to forties who had entered the job market between the early 1990s and 2010 and left for the English-speaking countries of Canada, Australia, and Singapore, the book argues that their practices are both ubiquitous and unique, the products of global and local contexts of a specific time. As semiskilled migrants from an extra-Western, postindustrial country, their struggles show a different picture of the West-centric world power system from those experienced by migrant workers from the Global South. Including extensive qualitative research and interview material collected over a 20-year period, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, cultural anthropology, and migration.

Anna Irimiás provides an informed overview on the characteristics of youth tourists with a focus on tourism consumption. Youth tourists’ pre-trip, on-stay and post-trip tourism behaviours are studied in light of the current trends. Challenges and implications are critically analysed.