Laila Ashrafun
Biographic Data
| ID | 889989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laila Ashrafun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laila |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashrafun |
| SIGNATURE | ASHRAFUN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shahjalal University of Science and Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parenting in context: Parents' experiences of caring for a child with autism in Bangladesh
Although research on children with autism, their parents, and family-provider relations has substantially increased around the world, there has been a paucity of qualitative studies conducted on autism in developing countries or cross-cultural contexts. This qualitative study aims to explore parents' experiences of raising a child with autism, as well as how autism is framed in everyday cultural contexts in Bangladesh. Using a semi-structured int…
Conclusions
The conclusion contains the reflections of this study and contextualizes the findings. The book observes and describes how Bangladeshi women negotiate their lives with domestic violence in their marital lives and curve out the limited space for emancipation in the changing structure of Bangladesh. This ethnography has portrayed an in-depth description of the life of the impoverished women as a part of the local social, cultural and economic setti…
Approaching basti life and a counseling center in Sylhet
This chapter covers the methodological aspects of the study. It delineates why certain methodology is used and the experiences and challenges as a native researcher in the field and the field research sites: the locality of the two slums, and the counseling center. This chapter depicts why the researcher has relied on a number of methods of data collection and has selected multiple sites as study areas. It also portrays the detail causes of migra…
Girlhood and marriage
This chapter primarily focuses on various factors that are embedded in the culture, traditions and customs in Bangladeshi society that influence women’s gendered life stages. Women’s life stages in Bangladesh are marked by remarkable alterations in personal autonomy and influence, status and relationships. For example, in childhood and adolescence, girls’ lives are controlled by their parents, grandparents or other elder patrilineal and matriline…
Legal battles at the counseling center
Through encounters with family law, domestic violence and mediation in contemporary Bangladesh, this chapter examines how marriage is reflected and shaped through law. It also provides an ethnographic portrait of everyday law as depicted through the governance of marriage. It also points out how women in socially vulnerable groups make use of an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process in a collaborative project between a judicial body and a …
Unveiling domestic violence from the privacy of home
This chapter focuses on how the daily lives of women in their marital homes can be disrupted by domestic violence by their husbands and in-laws. This makes their homes places of violence and fear by destroying the ideal pattern of a home. It looks for the causes of domestic violence against women from the clients of the counseling center to detect loopholes that could lead to women’s subordination in their struggle to establish their rights. This…
Women’s married life and domestic violence in the slum
This chapter brings to the forefront the material and emotional ways that the women use to counter domestic violence. It bases the analysis on some cases of domestic violence between husbands and wives and mothers- and daughters-in-law to trace the voice of slum women and to uncover how they are trying to establish their rights in their unfavorable position. To explore the changing views and experiences of slum women regarding domestic violence i…
Liberating one’s own space
The aim of this chapter is to address the range and diversity of the day-to-day experiences of slum women who work outside home, to show women as subjects and that their actions interact with the external structures and how the women resist and challenge the code of conduct expected from them. This chapter examines what changes take place after rural-urban migration, wage work, more freedom of movement outside the domestic sphere in the lives of …
Women and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: Seeking A Way Out of the Cage
After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has experienced large-scale transformations owing to national and international migration, urbanization, the development of many national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and economic dynamism. Globalization and economic liberalization have created opportunities to develop sustainable social policies by strengthening the national economy of the country. Major progres…
Correlates of age at first birth among the slum dwellers in Sylhet, Bangladesh
The micro-politics of microcredit: Gender and neoliberal development in Bangladesh
The micro-politics of microcredit: gender and neoliberal development in Bangladesh." Contemporary South Asia, 25(4), pp. 461–462
Domestic violence made public: A case study of the use of alternative dispute resolution among underprivileged women in Bangladesh
Disputes within the family and cases of domestic violence in Bangladesh have traditionally been resolved either among kinsmen or in village panchayats where young women have had less opportunity to be heard. This article describes a third-sector initiative in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in cases of domestic violence in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Data from 20 case studies of female victims of domestic violence, interviews with six lawyers, and p…
Parenting in context: Parents' experiences of caring for a child with autism in Bangladesh
Although research on children with autism, their parents, and family-provider relations has substantially increased around the world, there has been a paucity of qualitative studies conducted on autism in developing countries or cross-cultural contexts. This qualitative study aims to explore parents' experiences of raising a child with autism, as well as how autism is framed in everyday cultural contexts in Bangladesh. Using a semi-structured int…
The micro-politics of microcredit: Gender and neoliberal development in Bangladesh
The micro-politics of microcredit: gender and neoliberal development in Bangladesh." Contemporary South Asia, 25(4), pp. 461–462
Domestic violence made public: A case study of the use of alternative dispute resolution among underprivileged women in Bangladesh
Disputes within the family and cases of domestic violence in Bangladesh have traditionally been resolved either among kinsmen or in village panchayats where young women have had less opportunity to be heard. This article describes a third-sector initiative in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in cases of domestic violence in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Data from 20 case studies of female victims of domestic violence, interviews with six lawyers, and p…
Domestic violence made public: A case study of the use of alternative dispute resolution among underprivileged women in Bangladesh
Disputes within the family and cases of domestic violence in Bangladesh have traditionally been resolved either among kinsmen or in village panchayats where young women have had less opportunity to be heard. This article describes a third-sector initiative in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in cases of domestic violence in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Data from 20 case studies of female victims of domestic violence, interviews with six lawyers, and p…
Correlates of age at first birth among the slum dwellers in Sylhet, Bangladesh
The micro-politics of microcredit: Gender and neoliberal development in Bangladesh
The micro-politics of microcredit: gender and neoliberal development in Bangladesh." Contemporary South Asia, 25(4), pp. 461–462
Conclusions
The conclusion contains the reflections of this study and contextualizes the findings. The book observes and describes how Bangladeshi women negotiate their lives with domestic violence in their marital lives and curve out the limited space for emancipation in the changing structure of Bangladesh. This ethnography has portrayed an in-depth description of the life of the impoverished women as a part of the local social, cultural and economic setti…
Approaching basti life and a counseling center in Sylhet
This chapter covers the methodological aspects of the study. It delineates why certain methodology is used and the experiences and challenges as a native researcher in the field and the field research sites: the locality of the two slums, and the counseling center. This chapter depicts why the researcher has relied on a number of methods of data collection and has selected multiple sites as study areas. It also portrays the detail causes of migra…
Girlhood and marriage
This chapter primarily focuses on various factors that are embedded in the culture, traditions and customs in Bangladeshi society that influence women’s gendered life stages. Women’s life stages in Bangladesh are marked by remarkable alterations in personal autonomy and influence, status and relationships. For example, in childhood and adolescence, girls’ lives are controlled by their parents, grandparents or other elder patrilineal and matriline…
Legal battles at the counseling center
Through encounters with family law, domestic violence and mediation in contemporary Bangladesh, this chapter examines how marriage is reflected and shaped through law. It also provides an ethnographic portrait of everyday law as depicted through the governance of marriage. It also points out how women in socially vulnerable groups make use of an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process in a collaborative project between a judicial body and a …
Unveiling domestic violence from the privacy of home
This chapter focuses on how the daily lives of women in their marital homes can be disrupted by domestic violence by their husbands and in-laws. This makes their homes places of violence and fear by destroying the ideal pattern of a home. It looks for the causes of domestic violence against women from the clients of the counseling center to detect loopholes that could lead to women’s subordination in their struggle to establish their rights. This…
Women’s married life and domestic violence in the slum
This chapter brings to the forefront the material and emotional ways that the women use to counter domestic violence. It bases the analysis on some cases of domestic violence between husbands and wives and mothers- and daughters-in-law to trace the voice of slum women and to uncover how they are trying to establish their rights in their unfavorable position. To explore the changing views and experiences of slum women regarding domestic violence i…
Liberating one’s own space
The aim of this chapter is to address the range and diversity of the day-to-day experiences of slum women who work outside home, to show women as subjects and that their actions interact with the external structures and how the women resist and challenge the code of conduct expected from them. This chapter examines what changes take place after rural-urban migration, wage work, more freedom of movement outside the domestic sphere in the lives of …
Women and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: Seeking A Way Out of the Cage
After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has experienced large-scale transformations owing to national and international migration, urbanization, the development of many national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and economic dynamism. Globalization and economic liberalization have created opportunities to develop sustainable social policies by strengthening the national economy of the country. Major progres…
Parenting in context: Parents' experiences of caring for a child with autism in Bangladesh
Although research on children with autism, their parents, and family-provider relations has substantially increased around the world, there has been a paucity of qualitative studies conducted on autism in developing countries or cross-cultural contexts. This qualitative study aims to explore parents' experiences of raising a child with autism, as well as how autism is framed in everyday cultural contexts in Bangladesh. Using a semi-structured int…
Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Domestic violence (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Poison control (3 works) · Political science (3 works)