Migrant Women’s Social Contruction In The Pontang Sub District Of Banten Province

Migrant women or formerly known as Women Workers (TKW), are part of the portrait of social life in Indonesia. The majority of these women work based on the economic crush that results in these women being forced to work leaving their families. The purpose of the research on migrant women is based on the researcher’s curiosity about the motives of migrant women when she decides to work as a migrant women, then it also looks at the meaning of migrant women when she positions as a wife, mother and community member and the experience of migrant women after she works in overseas. The research method used in this research leads to the phenomenological research method, which in this method emphasizes more on studies that explain and classify phenomena or study of visible phenomena. The results of the study found that there are different motives and experiences felt by each migrant woman in the Sub District of Pontang based on the self-understanding that exists in each migrant women in the Sub District of Pontang, due to the social construction that afflicts both migrant women that she gets from the community environment and family.