Migration changes the traditional livelihood strategies and opens a new path for individual subjectivity as well as flexibility and transformation of community. However，as all we know that men and women experience migration differently and the pressures to migrate，destination choices，employment prospects and implication for social relations in migrant sending households all vary by gender. There also are gender specific opportunities and vulnerabilities in the process of climate change related migration. As a result，gender lens to the analysis of climate-induced migration bears significant meaning on its role as a tool of adaptation.

To this extent，a case study based in Yunnan Province，where is a comparative under-developed mountain area in south west China，aims to explore power relations in decision making process regarding migration within the household as well as decisions around adaptation to drought through the use of remittances. At the same time，it also tries to understand if migration and mobility increases the adaptive capacity of women when compared with women from migrant and non-migrant household.