Lives in Motion

The Life-Course, Movement and Migration in Bangladesh

Bibliographic Data

ID5772152
AuthorsKaty Gardner (0000-0002-5608-7585, Professor, University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume4
Issue2
Pages229-251
Publication date2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of South Asian Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0973-1741 • E-ISSN: 0973-1733
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/097317410900400204
OpenAlexW2125058906
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited28

Through a series of ethnographic examples drawn from long term research in Bangladesh, this article examines the relationship between different forms of migration and movement and the life course, focusing in particular upon how the life course influences peoples' pro-pensity to move rather than how movement affects peoples' experiences of the life course. Understanding the latter as inherently gendered, contextually varied and constructed by history, culture and global economies as well as physiology, the cases detailed in the article illustrate how human migration must be understood both in terms of the vagaries of individual lives and biographies (and hence micro-levels of analysis) as well as broader structural factors. The article is thus a reminder that the study of migration must involve appreciation of the interconnection of both micro- and macro-levels of analysis

Life course approach · Macro · Macro level · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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