An anatomy of forced and voluntary migration from Bangladesh: a gendered perspective

Siddiqui, Tasneem

doi:10.1007/978-3-663-09529-3_8

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“…Given these limitations our findings must be interpreted with caution. However, work experience in MoEW&OE of three of the authors and other available information [6,15,18,20] suggest that these findings are likely to be generalisable. Furthermore, even if the participants had lower overall knowledge than non-participants, it is of concern that this significant number of individuals are leaving for overseas work with such poor knowledge.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…A significant subgroup of women is reportedly also migrating through unofficial channels. The government ban on emigration of less skilled women has been identified by studies as the major reason behind such unofficial migration flows [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Undocumented workers run even greater risk [4]. Well-intentioned attempts by governments to protect women by limiting or banning their migration through legal channels ironically only heighten their vulnerability as women are forced to move through illegal channels and depend on dubious middlemen who exploit them and may, in many cases, traffic them [5][6][7].…”

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HIV Awareness of Outgoing Female Migrant Workers of Bangladesh: A Pilot Study

Islam

Conigrave

Miah³

et al. 2010

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Female migrant workers face a growing scale of unsafe migration, which increases their risk of HIV. Despite this, increasing numbers of women are migrating from Bangladesh to other countries as contractual workers. The aim of the study is to establish a baseline for the socio-demographic status of female migrant workers and the extent of their HIV/AIDS awareness along with the factors that determine it, and to discuss the need for effective HIV awareness programmes. During June-July 2008 data were collected by a questionnaire from 123 participants by approaching a cross section of women at the airport who were ready to fly to take up an overseas job. A total of 87% had heard of HIV/AIDS. Participants who had completed an education level of year ≥8 were more likely to have been informed about HIV than others. The average score in correct identification of modes of HIV infection was 1.6 (out of 4) and for preventive measures 1.8 (out of 5). Television and health workers were the major sources of HIV related knowledge. HIV-knowledge among the potential female migrant workers seems to be poor. As growing numbers of female workers are moving overseas for work, government and other concerned agencies must take a pro-active role to raise their awareness of HIV/AIDS infection and of effective preventive measures.

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HIV Awareness of Outgoing Female Migrant Workers of Bangladesh: A Pilot Study

Islam

Conigrave

Miah³

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J Immigrant Minority Health

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“…The narrative of victimhood and the assumption that women are forced to migrate and work in prostitution has brought about protective measures, which sometimes help women but also restrict their choices. There are countries today -like Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma) and Nepal -that have banned or restricted the emigration of women in an attempt to protect them (International seminar 2004;Siddiqui 2003;Moors & De Regt in this volume). In recent years, the discourse on prostitution and trafficking has dominated conferences on women's rights, and this usually leads to more restrictions for women (Soderlund 2005: 65).…”

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Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective

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Lucassen²,

Schrover³

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“…Research on Bangladeshi domestic workers migrating to the Middle East and South East Asia has already been long established(Gardner 1995;Siddiqui 2001). In recent years, the Government of Bangladesh has implemented incentives to recruit women to work abroad as domestic workers (Migrant Rights 2016).…”

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Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh

Dewan

2023

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Climate reductive translations of migration attract international attention, but result in three problematic misreadings of Bangladesh's socioecological landscape. First, attributing migration to climate change misreads coastal vulnerabilities and the importance of migration as a gendered livelihood strategy to deal with rural precarity and debt-both in the past and present. Second, misreading migration caused by brackish tiger-prawn cultivation, infrastructure-related waterlogging and riverbank erosion as 'climate-induced' hinders a discussion of long-term solutions for rural underemployment, salinisation, siltation and land loss. Lastly, framing climate change as causing 'gendered displacement' ignores the importance of affective kinship relations in shaping single women's migration choices.

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An anatomy of forced and voluntary migration from Bangladesh: a gendered perspective

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

HIV Awareness of Outgoing Female Migrant Workers of Bangladesh: A Pilot Study

HIV Awareness of Outgoing Female Migrant Workers of Bangladesh: A Pilot Study

Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective

Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh

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