Displacement and deplorable living conditions of slum dwellers: with special reference to Sylhet city

Abstract: Environmental displacement has already become extreme in geographically and environmentally vulnerable areas in Bangladesh. Thus, climate induced migration to big cities is getting spontaneous over the last few decades. Increasing numbers of slums represent a major challenge to development. Displaced people living in urban slums are in search of better and secure life. But urban slums located mostly in low lying environmentally hazardous area coupled with inadequate facilities like food, shelter, sanitation, high rates of malnutrition, density of population, communicable diseases, exposure to violence, health care make their life even worse. In other words it refers to informal areas suffering from problems of accessibility, narrow streets, the absence of vacant land and open spaces, very high residential densities, insufficient infrastructure and services. The study is fully based on primary data that followed stratified sampling method with triangulation research design and revie

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 46 ; 51-64

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2015
• Creator: Khan, Md. Arif Uddin ; Kubra, Tania Jannatul ; Sharmin, Zakia ; Hossen, Md. Akter

Further information

• DOI: 10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.46.51
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57522-7
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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