Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh

ISBN-13: 9780198279198 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 320 str.

Katy Gardner

Opis

Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Katy Gardner looks at the 'sending' communities (neglected by academic research) and covers major aspects of Bangladeshi life (land, family structure, marriage, and religion) to show how out-migration has become a central economic and social resource--the route to social, as well as physical, mobility, transforming those who gain access to it. At the heart of this important text is a presentation of the dynamic nature of migration and the possibility of self-transformation it holds for migrant cultures.

Recenzje

This microlevel study is one of the few which examines the sociocultural effects on the "sending" communities, particularly in the South Asian context. This well-written, informative ethnography contributes to our knowledge of another area of modern Bangladesh, as well as a heightened understanding of some of the impacts that international migration has had on the contributing society.