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The paper deals with two basic assumptions about migration patterns in Bangladesh. Firstly, is a commonly assumed that poverty and landlessness in rural Bangladesh leads to migration and settlement in disaster prone areas along the main rivers or in low-lying areas in the Bay of Bengal. Secondly, it is also commonly assumed that when people living in these areas experience loss of land, property and income opportunities due to natural disasters, they are forced to seek livelihood and housing in urban areas. These two assumptions are discussed on basis for data from a Char in Jamuna river and a slum settlement in Dhaka.
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