West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways

Abstract

This book series spotlights the experiences of Africans on the continent and in its multiple and multilayered diasporas. Its objective is to make available publications that focus on people of African descent wherever they are located, ratgeting innovative research that derives questions, concepts, and theories from historical and contemporary experiences. The broad scope of the series includes gender scholarship as well as studies that engage with culture in all its complexities. From a variety of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary orientations, these studies engage current debates, address urgent questions, and open up new perspectives in African knowledge production.

Assessing vulnerability of informal floating workers in Bangladesh before and during COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-method analysis

“…When the labour market is concerned, vulnerability is seen as a part of the occupational precariousness, which varies depending on the surroundings and circumstances of people employed, including job insecurity, shortage of safety net and labour regulations (Ansoleaga et al , 2019). Various risk factors such as workplace injuries, physical and mental trauma, economic hardships, adverse working conditions and anachronistic labour relations, including already impoverished socio-economic conditions, shove the floating workers into the vicious cycle of poverty, from where they hardly find an exit route (Adeniran et al , 2020; Kheirizadeh Arouq et al , 2020). While assessing workers' vulnerability, many researchers recognize precarity and job insecurity as the common causal factors, including other context-specific factors (Biegert, 2019; Pollert and Charlwood, 2009).…”