Bangladeshi Migration to Singapore : A Process-Oriented Approach

This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South?South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore. Two principal questions in the South?South migration are addressed: Why and how individuals migrate for work; and what impact this temporary form of migration has for migrants and their families. The book adopts a relatively new methodological approach to labour migration by linking different phases that migrants undergo in the migration process and by combining migrants in the host country with their families in the origin country. This is achieved through identifying and addressing six key areas: (i) migration policy, (ii) social imperatives of migration (iii) recruitment, (iv) social worlds of the migrants, (v) remittance process, and finally, (vi) family development dynamics. This book introduces the bari to migration research as a unit of analysis over and above individual and family units. The book reveals how social and cultural forces both initiate and perpetuate migration, and later on influence bari dynamics.

Author: Md Mizanur Rahman

Publisher: Springer

Publication Date: Mar 17, 2017

Number of Pages: 198 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 9811038562

ISBN-13: 9789811038563