The paper analyses the position of women in migration, including an examination of certain specific characteristics of women migrants. The relationship between society and women migrants and their problems, as well as studies on women in migration are presented. The migration of Yugoslav women is viewed through an analysis of conditions in Yugoslavia and in the countries of immigration. Special attention is given to the economic activities of women in migration, and to their role in the family and in social life. On the basis of available statistic and other data, as well as the results of the author's own research – on women returnees and those that stayed abroad (FRG, Berlin), the paper concludes with a comment on the specific unfavourable position of migrant women at work – impossibility of supplementary schooling and advancement, exhaustion and an aggravated state of health. An attempt is made to examine the effects and prospects of staying abroad or returning to Yugoslavia.

Ovaj rad analizira položaj žene u migraciji i njegove specifične karakteristike. Prikazan je i odnos društva prema radu migrantica i njihovim problemima. Migracije jugoslavenskih žena razmatrane su kroz analizu prilika u Jugoslaviji i u zemljama imigracije. Posebna pažnja posvećena je ekonomskoj aktivnosti žena u migraciji ali i njihovoj ulozi u obitelji i društvenom životu. Na osnovi dostupnih statističkih i drugih podataka, te rezultata vlastitih istraživanja o ženama koje su se vratile iz inozemstva i onima koje se nalaze u inozemstvu (SR Njemačka, Berlin), može se zaključiti u kako se nepovoljnom položaju na poslu one nalaze: bez mogućnosti da se doškoluju i napreduju, iscrpljene i pogoršanoga zdravstvenog stanja. Pokušalo se sagledati posljedice i perspektivu ostanka u inozemstvu, odnosno mogućeg povratka u Jugoslaviju.