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Gender dimensions of labour migration in Dhaka city’s formal manufacturing sector 4Gender dimensions of labour migration in Dhaka city’s formal manufacturing sector Rita Afsar I. Introduction Recent years have witnessed an increasing awareness of women’s productive roles, mobility and contributions to development. Nevertheless, the processes of women’s migration and entry into the labour market, and their coping strategies within the urban labour market and society, have received little attention in policy discourse. Such neglect is regrettable, not only because female migration is occurring on a scale comparable to that of men in most regions of Asia, but also because there are interrelations between female migration, the functioning of the urban labour market and society, and women’s roles and status. The existing literature suggests that migrant women differ markedly from migrant men in a number of ways: in both their underemployment and unemployment; in their prospects for occupational mobility; in the incomes they earn; in the occupations they perform; in their participation in the informal sector; and in their tendency to send remittances home (Anker and Hein, 1986; Chant, 1992; Findley and Williams, 1991; Lopez, Izazola and Gomez de Leon, 1993). Some of these studies (Findley and Williams, 1991; Lopez, Izazola and Gomez de Leon, 1993) also note differences in the characteristics between migrant and non-migrant women workers in the labour market. For example, they observed higher levels of 103
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