in nepal women s migration has long been associated with sex work and is highly stigmatized media reports on migrant women facing sexual violence in destination countriesarefurtherfuellingtheequation between women s migration and traffickingprostitution male migrant workers also face extreme abuses and sexual violence in destination countries but while their sacrifices are glorified and appreciated by both families and communities women are constantly victimized due to the patriarchal belief that they sym bolize the honour of thefamily as shared by a woman returnee lied about my migration to my neighbours for a number of years as migrant women were considered as spineless easy and i did not want to face the stigma many unmarried women shy away from revealing their migration experience as they are afraid of encountering problems in finding a partner women feel that people tend to equate migrant women with victims of sexual violence or prostitutes