River Erosion and the Sufferings of Women: Bangladesh Perspective

Type Journal Article - Bangladesh Research Foundation Journal
Title River Erosion and the Sufferings of Women: Bangladesh Perspective
Author(s)
Volume 2
Issue 2
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
Page numbers 14-92
URL http://www.researchfoundbd.org/images/Vol.2-No.2-2013.pdf#page=14
Abstract
Every year rivers erode away a substantial tract of land in Bangladesh and have devastating social, economic and political impacts upon the population. This article deals with the condition and suffering of the displaced people, specifically women caused by riverbank erosion. River erosion changes the relation among the neighbors and sometimes it is the cause of breakdown of their relative’s relation. It also changes their behavior pattern. They try to survive their families from the destruction but mostly they fail. Their employers hire them for lower wages as a surplus in labor. Thus disaster changes those who previously had land and home to become street dwellers that have no economic asset to survive. So, mostly they migrate to big cities for survival. Here again, most of them cannot adept with new environment. They also face various insecurity and identity crisis. They are defined, sealed and constructed with negligence by society and they do not know how to overcome this. In a word, losing their land and dream they fall in a different world. Hence, the employment status, economic condition and helping hand for displaced women have been examined in this field research. The findings consistently support their disadvantaged position. Most of them complain they do not get any help or shelter from the government or political leaders. In these circumstances, the government as well as people in general should take proper initiatives or incentives for these river eroded people.

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