Poverty and Migration: Slums of Dhaka City: The Realities

This book reveals the perspective of slums of Dhaka city. Slum dwells are small thatched structure with slanting roofs where the dwellers have to crawl over ground to enter into. There diseases, starvation, insecurity; uncertainty, hunger, and poverty are common phenomena. This book is an experiential documentation in simple approach. Readers can see a real portray of an abject situation of slum dwellers in this book without visiting thousands of slums. Growth and number of slums; factors responsible for migration to the city; occupation and income; household violence; incidence of polygamy; politics; vulnerability; food habit and food storage situation of slum dwellers are illustrated in chapter sequences. Although this book is intended for urban planners, but social researchers, development workers, and environmentalists also would find it useful. It is also hoped that this would be of immense help for under graduate and post-graduate students in any branch of social sciences wishing to undertake research on this issue.