Fighting poverty: the economic adjustment of female migrants in Dhaka

Huq-Hussain, Shahnaz

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“…Perhaps their income, even the income of the highest quartile, was not enough to undertake necessary environmental modifications in their homes in order to maximise their functional independence. The very low wages for informal domestic workers in Bangladesh [ 36 ] could be another reason for not finding any difference in the severity of disability by household income. Employing somebody or bringing a distant poor family member into the household to look after the disabled member is more economical than bringing in environmental modifications.…”

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Socio-demographic determinants of the severity of locomotor disability among adults in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study, December 2010–February 2011

2017

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BackgroundSocio-demographic variables are widely known to have an association with the presence of any disability. However, the association between the severity of locomotor disability and socio-demographic variables has never been investigated in Bangladesh.MethodsA cross sectional survey of adults with locomotor disabilities was conducted between December 2010 and February 2011 at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Dhaka, Bangladesh. During the study period 328 adults with locomotor disabilities met our selection criteria, but 316 consented and participated in the study. The 55-item Locomotor Disability Scale was used to measure disability. This study investigated the socio-demographic determinants of the severity of locomotor disability: age, gender, marital status, educational attainment, occupation, income status, type of house, living in own/rented house, household monthly income, household population and area of residence.ResultsParticipants’ age was positively associated with the severity of their locomotor disability (β = 0.01; 95% CI: 0.004 to 0.02), adjusting for diagnosis and other socio-demographic variables studied. Individuals who had an income experienced 0.35 (95% CI: -0.63 to −0.07) points decrease in the severity of disability than those did not have an income, adjusting for diagnosis and rest of the socio-demographic variables studied. In comparison to the unemployed individuals, students, homemakers, and individuals in elementary occupation respectively experienced 0.75 (95% CI: -1.08 to −0.43), 0.51 (95% CI: -0.82 to −0.19) and 0.37 (95% CI: -0.66 to −0.08) points decrease in the severity of locomotor disability, adjusting for diagnosis and rest of the socio-demographic variables studied.ConclusionsThe severity of locomotor disability has an association with individuals’ age, income status and occupation of the adults with such disability in Bangladesh. No such association was evident with other socioeconomic position and demographic variables. This finding suggests that people with locomotor disabilities in Bangladesh experience similar disabling built and attitudinal environments irrespective of their socioeconomic positions and demographic characteristics. Further community-based studies are needed to confirm such conclusions.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13690-017-0217-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Socio-demographic determinants of the severity of locomotor disability among adults in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study, December 2010–February 2011

2017

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“…Kuhn (2002, p. 6) argues that the complex role of land determines migration, and that the mode of migration differs for landed and landless households. Problems of scarcity of land, landlessness and unequal land distribution are common features of the villages where migration is prevalent (Huq-Hussain, 1996;Siddiqui & Abrar, 2003;Siddiqui & Skinner, 2008). The amount of usable land available to a household is a key variable affecting household expenditure and consumption.…”

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Remittances and life chances: a study of migrant households in rural Bangladesh

Sikder

Ballis²

2013

Migration and Development

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Remittances from international and internal migrants are estimated to constitute 10.6% of national income expenditure in Bangladesh and a major income source for many villages and households. Existing studies on migration and remittances for the most part provide little insight on remittances from the perspective of migrant households, that is, on how households use and are affected by this source. Drawing on data from a recently completed ethnographic study of 36 migrant households across three rural villages in Bangladesh, the paper highlights that remittances play a key role in shaping the life circumstances of rural migrant households in Bangladesh. The paper introduces the concept of 'life chances' to discuss the impacts of remittances on individuals and households.

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“…In view of the renewed interest in the relationship between environment and migration (Hunter, 2005;Piguet, 2013), it is surprising that the potential linkage between female migration and environmental stressors has not been explored to a larger degree (Chindarkar, 2012, p. 2). This missing link is especially prominent in the context of South-Asia, an area highly prone to climate change and environmental stressfactors expected to significantly increase human mobility over the next decades.…”

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Gender, environment and migration in Bangladesh

Evertsen

Geest

2019

Climate and Development

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This article addresses how gender norms impact the process of migration, and what this means for the use of migration as an adaptation strategy to cope with environmental stressors. Data was collected through qualitative fieldwork, taking the form of semi-structured and open-ended interviews and focus group discussions from a Dhaka slum and three villages in Southern Bangladesh's Bhola district. Our data revealed that women migrate when environmental stress threatens livelihoods and leave male household members unable to earn enough income for their families. Employing an analytical framework that focuses on the perceptions of individuals, this article shows how gender norms create social costs for women who migrate. Women thus have ambivalent feelings about migration. On the one hand, they do not wish to migrate, taking on a double work load, forsaking their purdah, and facing the stigma that follows. On the other hand, women see migration as a means to help their families, and live a better life. While social costs negatively affect the utilization and efficiency of female migration as an adaptation strategy to environmental stressors, it becomes clear that female migration is imperative to sustain livelihoods within the Bhola community.

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Fighting poverty: the economic adjustment of female migrants in Dhaka

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Socio-demographic determinants of the severity of locomotor disability among adults in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study, December 2010–February 2011

Socio-demographic determinants of the severity of locomotor disability among adults in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study, December 2010–February 2011

Remittances and life chances: a study of migrant households in rural Bangladesh

Gender, environment and migration in Bangladesh

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