Internal Migrant Workers and the Construction Sector in Bangladesh: Tackling Informality and Exploitative Labour Practices
Published By: Migrating out of Poverty RPC | Published Date: January, 01 , 2014Internal migrant construction workers in Bangladesh face unduly harsh conditions of work. This brief identifies a number of problems that all construction workers face, but they are particularly pertinent to migrants because the latter are so numerous and have so few other options. Migration continues despite these problems and helps to alleviate poverty among the workers’ families, so this brief argues that the appropriate policy response is not to reduce migration but to improve living and working conditions for migrants at destination.
Author(s): C R Abrar, Selim Reza | Posted on: Sep 24, 2014 | Views(470)