Bangladeschische Migrantinnen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Globalisierung, Ausgrenzung und nationaler Identität

Abstract

Abstract

In the last years it is increasingly recognized that migration patterns and movements are gendered, as are the experiences of migrants. The feminisation of migration due to globalisation processes furthermore initiates discourses and negotiations about national identity and cultural authenticity in various translocal and local spaces. In the following article it will be shown how in an Islamic country like Bangladesh the temporary labour migration of women is used by different national as well as transnational actors to constitute a specific identity and to compete for the supremacy of their respective view. The construction of „good“ male and „bad“ female migrants by male migrants is one example which will reveal how male migrants justify the exclusion of female migrants of their transnational networks by references to the national cultural and Islamic identity.