Remittance Income and Social Resilience among Migrant Households in Rural Bangladesh

Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder is an assistant professor at the General Education Department at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) as well as a senior research fellow at the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has published several books and articles on migration, remittances, and development and climate change in respected international journals. He has also been involved in a number of studies under the Migration out of Poverty RPC at the University of Sussex, UK. Vaughan Higgins is an associate professor of sociology at Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research interests encompass the sociology of science and technology, and the sociology of agriculture and food. He is co-editor of Food Security in Australia: Challenges and Prospects (2012), Assembling Neoliberalism: Expertise, Practices, Subjects (2017) and author of a wide range of journal articles. Harry Ballis was head of Gippsland Business School, Federation University, Australia. Prior to that he worked as a senior lecturer in sociology at the School Applied Media and Social Sciences (SAMSS), Monash University, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of accounting and accountability; sociology of religion; work and organisations; and sociology of health. His recent publications include: Ethno Medicine and Dominant Medicine in Multicultural Australia: A Critical Realist Reflection on the Case of Korean-Australian Immigrants (2007); Challenge and Excitement – part one: Loving and Hating Rural Medicine (2009).

Preamble. -Acknowledgments. -Abbreviations. -Glossary. -Chapter 1: Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Pursuit of Livelihood. -Chapter 2: Remittances: From Development Impacts to Social Resilience. -Chapter 3: Migrant Households, migration and Remittances. -Chapter 4: Remittances and Livelihood Strategies: Improving Household Life Chances. -Chapter 5: Remittances and Livelihood Diversification: Building a Resilient Household Economy. -Chapter 6: Uneven Geography of Remittances and Household Resilience. Chapter 7: -Conclusions: Remittances and Household Social Resilience. Bibliography. -Index

“Remittance Income and Social Resilience among Migrant Households in Rural Bangladesh is a useful read for migration researchers, development practitioners, and students interested in development studies and livelihoods research. Overall, an engaging read, what adds depth to the analysis are the extensive quotes from migrants and family members left behind and the pictures that give readers, even those unfamiliar with the Bangladeshi or South Asian context, an opportunity to understand local conditions and everyday living.” (Chandni Singh, newbooks.asia, January, 2018)