LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Centrinės ir Rytų Europos šalys; Lyčių santykiai; Migracija; Pilietinės visuomenės krizė; VRE šalys; CEE countries; Crisis of civil society; Gender relations; Migration.
ENThe author presents the results from the research which was done in March - April 2009 in the UK about the lives of migrant women from Lithuania in the UK and their decision to migrate because of state's civil society. The author focuses that the idea of civil society should be investigated not from the perspective of NGOs and active participation in public life, but from the general feeling of "moral comfort". Moreover, the article analyzes the linkages between civil society and the migration, with the practical examples, which were never emphasised before in the scholars' debate, when the eountry is not able to provide its citizens a ground for their personal development, and better living conditions, people with greater level of self-esteem are forced to migrate and search for another place where their fmancial situation meets with the spiritual "comfortability", and where the individual is able to develop as a personality. [From the publication]