In-migrant mobility between and beyond places The case of informal wage labors in Dhaka city

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to explore in-migrant wage laborers' mobility between and beyond particular places. It examines the extent to which 'the poor informal wage laborers search for daily work in different sites of Dhaka city along with the social and political meanings of various linkages they build. With this broader aim, this article critically examines the existing concept of migration. The research aims to see the practices which provide poor people with a degree of employment opportunities need to be contextualized within particular geographies of power and practice, Bed upon empirical data, the research illustrates movement between and beyond places occurs since the in-migrants have a variety of economic and political reasons that enable them to provide a conta supply of ready labor, political support and other services which are rarely made explicit. Informal in-migrants wage labors' ceaseless mobility forms the idea that the movement is a never-ending process.