Dozens of similar stories were shared by other migrant women, both during the focus group discussions and in the shelter cases. In this way, migration has helped challenge a well-entrenched customary system of discrimination that deprives women of strategic assets and access to resources. Moving outside the parental house without being married comes with great stigma in Nepalese society. The money earned abroad allows women to postpone their marriage and better negotiate their role and space in their new home.