Paper short abstract:

The article shows that individuals may migrate out of desire for a better life, or to escape poverty, political persecution, or social or family pressures. Besides, the gender roles, relations and inequalities affect on sending areas and on receiving areas in Southeast Asia

Paper long abstract:

The article discusses the cause of women migration from My Loc commune, Can Loc district, Hatinh Province to Laos and Thailand to work. The research shows that main causes of migration is that desire for a better life, or to escape poverty, political persecution, or social or family pressures. The migration can provide new opportunities to improve women's lives and change oppressive gender relations - even displacement as a result of conflict can lead to shifts in gender roles and responsibilities to women's benefit. However, migration can also entrench traditional roles and inequalities and expose women to new vulnerabilities as the result of precarious legal status, exclusion and isolation. Moreover, the migration can provide a vital source of income for migrant women and their families, and earn them greater autonomy, self-confidence and social status