Migration and Subjective Poverty Interactions

The Case of a Bangladeshi Village

Bibliographic Data

ID22239183
AuthorsMunshi Israil Hossain (0000-0002-0129-6662, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume2
Issue6
Pages474-486
Publication date2020-11-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2664-4002 • E-ISSN: 2664-6714
PublisherSASPR Edu International Pvt. Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.36346/sarjhss.2020.v02i06.002
OpenAlexW3152253336
LanguageEN
References cited27

This article attempts to examine the pre-and-post migration poverty and non-poverty status of returned migrants in a village of Bangladesh and underlines the factors that shape those statuses. It finds that out of forty-two migrants who returned mostly from Malaysia, twenty-two were poor before their migration, ten were from the lower middle class and the remaining ten were from middle class background. A substantial number of twenty-two poor migrants have been able to increase their household resources and have moved out from poverty. Furthermore, the majority of lower middle class and middle class migrants have plused extra resources with their pre-migration household resources and thereby have led an improved livelihood compared to that in their pre-migration period. The study also finds that upon returning home, a portion of migrant households from all classes has experienced a decrease in resources and is now living in a stressful economy'. In order to evaluate the impacts of migration and remittances on the poverty situation of returned migrants, and to find out the underlying factors behind this, the present study conducted a baseline survey on 371 households, collected personal narratives from all returned migrants and interviewed ten key informants through in-depth interview, as a qualitative data collection method. To analyze and interpret the information on subjective judgements of migrants on their pre-and-post migration periods narrative analysis' method is used throughout the article

Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Poverty · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Agricultural risk and resilience · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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