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

by Katy Gardner

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198279191
• ISBN13: 9780198279198
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.7"