By Suman Gupta and Tope Omoniyi
This quantity explores the tactics of financial migration, the social stipulations that stick to it and the discourses that underlie study into it. Reflecting severely on fiscal migration and at the technique of learning and developing wisdom approximately it, the participants handle the query of no matter if fresh enquiries into modernity carry a more recent and higher comprehension of the character of dislocation and stream, or no matter if those serve just to mirror everyday modes of putting humans and individuals.The booklet is geared up into views in and on particular continents - Europe, Asia and Africa - which will discover notions concerning monetary migration inside and throughout areas in addition to in the direction of displacing the Eurocentrism of many reports of migration.
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Her sister’s life is not a happy one – she runs off with a man from a neighbouring village and after a series of unhappy experiences in Dhaka, she ends up as a servant in Dhanmondi, one of the capital’s wealthy neighourhoods. Although her relationships with men fail, she remains determined to follow her heart and not commit suicide like her mother. In the last letter, which she writes to Nazneen before she runs off with her employers’ cook, she rejects her mother’s act of despair: Amma always say we are women what can we do?
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But I am not like her. Waiting around. Suffering around. She wrong. So many ways. At the end only she act. She who think all path is closed for her. She take the only one forbidden (2003: 363). Nazneen and her sister’s lives may have taken different paths but as women they are united by a personal politics of female agency and liberation. The book ends on this positive note as Nazneen is taken by her daughters and Bangladeshi female friends to Liverpool Street and the City of London for a surprise.