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. At the heart of this important text is a presentation of the dynamic nature of migration and the possibility of self-transformation it holds for migrant cultures.