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In a 2019 paper for the Bangladesh Institute of Labor Studies, Khandoker Abdus Salam and Rezaul Karim estimated that there are 1.1 million cycle-rickshaws operating on the streets of Dhaka, accommodated in garages across the city. ![]() They blur functions of sleeping, working and entrepreneurship. They accommodate varying numbers of workers throughout the year, depending on the seasons. We found that both mess dormitories and rickshaw garages are brimming with movement and business. We interviewed more than 100 people passing through these spaces in search for work and income, from rickshaw drivers, construction workers and garment workers to small-scale entrepreneurs. These are typically located on the margins of the city in neighborhoods such as Mirpur, Rayerbazar, Kamrangirchar, Shonir Akhra and Badda. We were examining two kinds of spaces linked to seasonal and labor migration: rickshaw garages and mess dormitories. Our research was based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork that we both conducted between 20. They shift between jobs, localities and accommodations. We have shown that people move back and forth between urban and rural places. This kind of ranking inevitably privileges the perspectives of certain urban occupants and workers over others, often overlooking communities in urban peripheries. ![]() The Economist's global livability index is based on the experiences of expats rather than citizens. As Helemul Alam of the Daily Star put it, that ranking makes it the "seventh least livable city in the world." While such lists tell a compelling story, it is an inherently biased one. In the 2023 edition of its annual global livability index, the Economist Intelligence Unit (the research and analysis division of the Economist Group) ranked the Bangladeshi capital 166 out of 173 cities.
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