The contribution is about the important role women had for the preservation of source culture, especially national identity and language in migrational contexts. The author derives from reality as being established by patriarchal relations and gender dichotomy. In such aspect, migration can offer women chances for loosening patriarchal bonds, and for social mobility. The principal finding of the treatise is women have a crucial role and great significance (as well in the past as today) in preserving ethnic/national/nationality identity