The topic of this doctoral dissertation are the international circular labour migrations of women from the Croatian region of Slavonija within the context of paid employment abroad and unpaid work within the household and the family of the home region. The globalization and flexibilization processes are changing the landscape of paid and unpaid work both on the level of the international labour markets and the division of labour, and on the level of individual work lives. Simultaneously, they are creating and simplifying the employment opportunities in the non-standard and low-skilled work positions abroad. The research aims to describe and understand the labour migration experiences of women’s international circular labour migrations from Slavonija who are employed in Italy, Austria, and Germany as care workers in the private household, in seasonal positions in agriculture and in the hospitality industry. Twenty-five narrative interviews were conducted within the framework of narrative inquiry with circular labour migrants in different life cycles and family structures. The narrative interview data was analysed in two ways: through vignettes which describe the uncommon interruption and consequent continuation of circularity of three migrants, and through the cross-case analysis via the coding of data. Vignettes describe unexpected situations of interruption in employment abroad caused by family needs which required them to stop their migration cycles to care for their family members. The results of coding indicate continual temporariness in separating employment from life at home, which is visible through concentrated labour during the cycle abroad, followed by catching up with housework and restoration of life during their cycle in Slavonija. Paid work abroad creates a discontinuity in the lives of circular labour migrants. Employment is separated from life, but through the transnational ties with their family, they continue some aspects of household organization and immaterial work while abroad. While they are abroad, there is a redelegation of housework that the migrants habitually do themselves, but it is only temporary until they return home. The migrants continue their circular migration cycles as they allow them participation in paid work while they mitigate precarious work conditions in nonstandard employment by maintaining a cooperative relationship with their employers, and extensive migrant networks, which both provide them with further employment opportunities. 199 Migrants’ home region is indeed their home, and they have no plans to move abroad but they recognize unemployment, emigration, and wider economic conditions in the region as significant developmental barriers. With their circular migration, the migrants navigate work and life insecurities in which they are especially engulfed at the start of their migration. Time spent in migration leads to a shift from employment abroad because of financial necessity to continuing such employment because of planning their own or families’ futures, regardless of their life cycle.