some underage women migrants also migrated to escape early marriage the present study shows that migrant women s transnational subjectivities are also in a complex process of emancipation whereby the exposure for the first time alone to a challenging and new reality has helped them overcome entrenched fears and taboos such as freedom of mobility and segregation during menstruation financial independence has often resulted in a means for bargaining for their right to basic assets eg land and to play a greater role in the management ofthe household and at timesalso in their communities the voices of nepalese migrant women bear witness to the complex layers of emancipation and oppression that should not be simplified but rather further investigated and understood as a set of lived contradictions at several levels everyone is leaving who will sow ourfields the effects of migration from khotang district to the gulf and malaysia