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Central to this paper is the relationship between work and welfare marginalization of migrant women domestic workers. Based upon the findings of a recent (2005)(2006)(2007) research study on Albanian and Ukrainian domestic workers' access to social insurance, medical and children's care (i.e. nurseries, kindergartens), the paper claims that welfare barriers are constituted around lack of resources, discriminations as well as conditions and values at work.At the highest level of generality, paid domestic work is considered part of an economic activity that is increasingly difficult to relate with the official state policies and welfare provisions, because of its fluid and personalized work conditions. However, the typical processes, routes followed, and set of ideas developed by migrant women in domestic work in order e.g to maintain employability, necessitate the adoption of practices and values which sustain and enhance existing welfare barriers to the above mentioned services.The first part of the paper explores the role of low status jobs in welfare ideas and practices. The second part refers to the case of Albanian cleaners and Ukrainian carers working in Greece, their work conditions and values, and how both contribute to welfare limits.

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