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This study, which incorporates extensive primary data, centres on the expectations of migrants in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The research findings of this book suggest that key hypotheses put forward to explain migration, are not entirely satisfactory. Although migrants experience an economic need, by no means all are reacting solely to that economic necessity. Nor are all migrants in possession of transferable skills, or entrepreneurial. Many migrants in the ...
Bangladesh is a gendered society like any other. In a gendered society women and men must conform to the dominant values. In enforcing this conformity the media plays an important role. One of the most important aspects of that role is projecting images that seem more real than reality itself. Drawing upon the large volume of literature on media images, the author analyses TV and print media images of Bangladeshi women. Using narratology as her main theoretical ...