The driving forces of youth migration depend on a family's financial standing. Understanding it requires looking honestly at who is leaving, why, what they find when they get there, what they leave behind, and increasingly what happens when they try to come back.

The Sukumbasi crisis did not start in April 2026, and it will not be solved just by giving cash support. Since the 1990s, Nepal has created many commissions to address landlessness, but little has changed. All major political parties have promised land and resettlement to squatters during elections, but these promises were mostly ignored once they came into power.