Southeast Asia is certainly a region on the move. Internal and international migratory flows constitute an essential characteristic of this geographical context. On the one hand, South-East Asia welcomes significant work-related migratory flows towards other countries in the region requiring labor, but also towards international immigration areas such as North America, the European Union and the Persian Gulf. On the other hand, Southeast Asia also attracts immigration, mainly intraregional. Intraregional migration is generally temporary and irregular, presenting a major challenge for governments in managing migration within their territories. In addition to origin and destination countries, some Asian countries are discovering a new role as transit migration countries. Without having to implement migration policies, they face significant challenges linked to the presence of people who, on their migratory journey, reside in their territory before heading to their final destination in another country. Resurreccion explains (in Devasahayam, 2009, p. 31) that women play an increasingly important role in this context. Some of the reasons are the emergence of employment opportunities for women in the service sector and tourism industry in the region, as well as their employment in the clothing and textile industries across borders. national (ibid). However, as Piper (2004, p. 217) points out, female foreign workers are still funneled into "low-paid, low-skilled service sector jobs that are not socially recognized as work." Some of these legal conditions lead to vulnerability. According to the United Nations, vulnerability can be structural (when it arises from the existence of a power structure in which only certain people participate) or cultural (e...... middle of paper ..... .social isolation. Vulnerability poses a growing threat to migrant women. However, this phenomenon also affects men with low-skilled jobs who have reached the host country illegally and face salary reductions or even terminations. -payments, mistreatment or violation of their employment contract, is difficult to increase in this context. On the positive side, NGOs have tried to protect migrants by creating networks that can. building their social resilience. Asian countries now face the challenge of managing migration in an increasingly globalized and interconnected context. Migration is expected to be important to the political and social agenda of Southeast Asian governments. the decades to come. The links between migration policy and social and economic development policies confirm its crucial status..