Bordered Lives: Bangladeshi Women’s Migration To India, Precarity, And The Gap Between Policy And Ground Realities – Analysis

Introduction

On winter nights along the narrow earthen embankments that mark parts of the India–Bangladesh border, small groups of people move quickly through fields of jute and paddy, guided by brokers who know where the floodlights dim and the patrol shifts change. Among them are women and adolescent girls leaving villages in Khulna, Jessore, or Kurigram, heading toward Indian towns in West Bengal or Assam where a cousin has promised work as a domestic helper, a garment worker, or...