1 Chapter 3 Migrant care work in Europe: variety and institutional determinants Franca van Hooren, University of Amsterdam Full reference: Hooren, F. van. (2014). Migrant Care Work in Europe: Variety and Institutional Determinants (pp. 62–83) in M. Léon (ed.), The Transformation of Care in European Societies, London: Palgrave MacMillan. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of the chapter. The version of record is available online at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137326515_4#citeas Abstract The employment of migrant workers in the care sector has become an increasingly important solution for emerging care gaps across Europe. This chapter takes stock of new insights in relation to migrant care workers employed by families and care providing agencies in both the child and elderly care sector. It discusses how institutional determinants shape variation in migrant care work. First, it is shown that care policies and the available public funding for care services shape the working conditions and thereby the demand for cheap and flexible migrant labour in the care sector. Second, migration policies set the legal opportunities and associated vulnerabilities of migrant care workers from different countries of origin with different migration histories.