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Degrees of separation: informal social protection, relatedness and migration in Biswanath, Bangladesh
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Abstract This paper argues for a more precise and context specific understanding of mechanisms of 'informal social protection' in Bangladesh. The context is a 'Londoni' village in Sylhet which has high levels of internal and overseas migration. As our findings show, the extent to which the poor can call upo... mehr
This paper argues for a more precise and context specific understanding of mechanisms of 'informal social protection' in Bangladesh. The context is a 'Londoni' village in Sylhet which has high levels of internal and overseas migration. As our findings show, the extent to which the poor can call upon the protection of rich overseas migrants depends upon the degree of closeness to, or separation from, them, marked both through real and fictive kinship as well as geography. As the paper also argues, access to hierarchically ordered places is vital for the sustainability of precarious livelihoods. Yet whilst geographical movement is an important survival strategy for the poor, it is only when social relations are established with wealthy patrons that it can be said to contribute to informal social protection.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Migration
Klassifikation
Migration
soziale Probleme
Freie Schlagwörter
Bangladesh; employment and law; social protection
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Seitenangabe
S. 124-149
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Development Studies, 45 (2008) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220380802468587
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)