Global Migrants, Local Lives

Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Katy Gardner looks at the `sending' communities (neglected by academic research) and covers major aspects of Bangladeshi life (land, family structure, marriage, and religion) to show how out-migration has become a central economic and social resource - the route to social, as well as physical, mobility, transforming those who gain access to it.