Domestic work

Au-Pairs, Transitmigration of Eastern European women

"I have a dream: I want to go to Germany and stay there for a while. There you can earn some money and learn German along the way. But no, the other girls stay here at Slavocovce and get their unemployment-benefits. And then a boy shows up and says `marry me´, and then the kids are coming. And that is what live is all about?

Respect- Migrant Domestic Worker's Network

The German RESPECT-network was founded in Berlin at a meeting of migrants' organisations and counselling services in February 2000. The network consists of projects and organisations that are concerned with the working conditions of migrants in private households and in the cleaning industry, irrespective of their residence status.