Migration researchers argue that female migrants are not always mothers, daughters or wives trailing behind their parents or husbands; a large number of them migrate independently on their own and many among them are also professionals. Migration researchers argue that male and female migrants have different migration and resettlement experiences. Many migrants who wanted to immigrate permanently in a host country return home without completing their migration cycle, when unknown forces such as unexpected events in the family, in the home country or in the host country or sudden change in their own personal circumstances forces them to pack their bags to return home. Remigration, or return migration is not a myth, as argued by some researchers (Carling 2015). It is a reality because migration is not a one-way traffic; many of those who emigrate also remigrate. According to researchers up to 80 percent of the emigrants remigrate after some years abroad. There are male and female, young and old among the return migrants and they all have different remigration and reintegration experiences. My research study, although not generalisable across the entire population of Nepali migrants in the UK or return migrants in Nepal, does support the findings that female return migrants experiences remigration and reintegration in the home country particularly differently.

The female migrants’ experience of return migration and reintegration in the society that they had left behind some time ago could be filled with nostalgia and more difficult, and different as compared to male return migrants’ because of the preconceived and predetermined role of female in the Nepali society, which could probably apply to most societies in South Asia, or even beyond. With the intention of delineating the current state of theoretical development on the factors determining or influencing female return migration and reintegration, I would like to examines return and reintegration experiences of Nepali female return migrants exclusively based on the following research findings: The female migrants may find some sociocultural and religious norms and practices such as lack of personal freedom, respect for personal opinion and traditional norms such as seclusion during the monthly menstruation cycle, as well as prejudice against inter-caste marriages unacceptable. They may then choose to openly challenge these practices. The female return migrants find it hard to accept male dominance and male patriarchy in the family and in the society. They feel that the archaic social values prevalent in the Nepali society undermine their existence and humiliates them. They challenge the male bias that exists in the Nepali society and they challenge their families for these biases. They call for male and female equality in the Nepali society. They challenge the overall societal outlook towards women and call for change in the social perception towards women as a whole. The returnee female migrants often lack living space, have to strictly adhere to regulations introduced by their in-laws in the family which they find very difficult to deal with.