The research was based and drew on the project called Vietnamese Workers in Czech Factories (2008) in which La Strada CR covered the living and labour conditions of the Vietnamese employed within the system of the Czech job agencies. During the research in 2008 some forms of exploitation of the Vietnamese and labour migration specifics of these community members were recorded, which had not been described before. At the same time, the Czech labour market started to change substantially due to the global economic crisis in the second half of the year 2008. The decrease in the number of jobs and suspension of work permit renewals resulted in massive dismissals of foreigners who had been temporarily allocated to firms by job agencies. The research in 2009 aimed at complementing the information in some areas of the respective issue suggested earlier and recording the reaction of the target group to the changed situation during the crisis. Looked into were particularly hypotheses concerning labour recruitment and export from Vietnam, role of the Czech embassy in the process of labour migration from Vietnam to the CR, interconnectedness of the agencies in the home and target countries (Vietnam and CR), strategies of finding work and maintaining a legal residence status on the territory of the CR as well as labour conditions, roles of job agencies and exploitation mechanisms of the Vietnamese during the crisis. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with workers as well as with other persons interested in the respective issue. Being to a certain extent subjective, their experience is complemented by information drawn from relevant specialized studies.