本研究探討面對跨國婚姻衝突的新移民女性在台灣的社會結構下，如何在不同的婚姻階段與父權家庭結構討價還價，在有限的選擇中，找到自己生命的出路。透過訪談16位越南籍女性配偶與3位台灣丈夫，我們發現，台越兩國性別文化的差異，表現在跨國婚姻夫妻對彼此性別角色期待的落差，導致家庭內部與夫妻的衝突。受暴的新移民越南女性積極爭取外出工作，結果雖然讓新移民女性漸獲充權，卻可能導致夫妻雙方的衝突更為升高、暴力加劇，甚至婚姻的破裂。我們發現，對於這群女性來說，外出工作並不只是經濟理由，她們透過就業的機會，逐步地增進個人資源，並改變與夫家互動方式與權力關係。研究同時發現，兩個台灣特殊的社會結構因素：家庭暴力防治法與中小企業為主的市場結構，有利於這群女性外出工作，最後成為能走出婚姻暴力的主要力量。

This paper explores how Vietnamese migrant women in Taiwan find a way out of Taiwanese patriarchal family structures in different marital stages with their own limited resources. We argue that getting a job outside family is a reason causing domestic violence, and also the catalyst to initiate a dynamic process of negotiating the patriarchy family system, and probably result in leaving unhappy marriage and pursuing an independent life of their own. With in-depth interview of sixteen Vietnamese migrant women and three of their husbands, it shows that getting a job is not only motivated by economic reason, but also an important factor to gain resources to negotiate patriarchy family in this dynamic process. The gender roles expectation gap between Taiwanese husband and Vietnamese wife often results in conflict view of getting a job, and division of labor in domestic affairs. In Taiwan, two structural factors, i.e., the Domestic Violence Prevention Law and small- and medium-sized enterprises structures, facilitate these migrant women to escape the constraints set by their patriarchy families.