Download Key words: Mongolian female migrants in the Czech Republic

Key words:
Mongolian female migrants in the Czech Republic, gender, migration, transnational
motherhood, remmitences, social network, work
Abstract
In my diploma thesis I primarily focus on a situation of Mongolian women in the course of
their labour migration into the Czech Republic. I addressed 20 women, who are (or have been
until recently) transnational mothers living together and working in a factory in North
Bohemia, Czech Republic, for my research purposes. Regardless the fact whether these
women are married or divorced, single mothers or widows, it also connects them that they all
may be considered breadwinners of their families. I was as well interested in what their
decision was to leave Mongolia for the Czech Republic in order to get a job – I focused on
both personal situation and general conditions in current Mongolia.
My research deals with three main topics. Transnational motherhood is the first topic I deal
with, in what I pay attention to what is the women´s attitude to cope with their new role as
well as what emphasis they place on it. Social networks issues and their usage in migration is
firmly connected to this topic so that I also look into the way my participants use of these
social networks together with the way these networks work. My last topic is a key motive of
Mongolian women´s migration – labour and their sending of remittances to the country of
their origin at the same time.