This chapter examines migration and families through the lens of privatised childcare. Domestic and care work have become migrant niches, mediated by national scale policies and cultures. We use the framework of ‘regimes’ of care, migration, welfare and work to contrast the cases of the UK and Sweden. We show that in the UK deregulated au pairing has grown within regimes that bolster long hours of paid work for parents and cultural preferences for ‘mother-like’ care. In Sweden the neoliberalisation of welfare regimes has brought a rhetoric of ‘freedom of choice’ together with the long-standing goal of gender equality. One outcome has been a tax policy that has underpinned growth in nanny and au pair employment. In both countries the employment of domestic workers and au pairs has supported existing gender inequalities, stratifying them by class and nationality rather than challenging assumptions about women’s place in the home.