Hosna J. Shewly
Hosna J. Shewly, Lorraine Nencel, Ellen Bal, Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff
Drawing on ethnography, this paper conceptualizes invisible mobilities by exploring the linkages between mobility, invisibility and hotel and residence based sex work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since both are illegal in Bangladesh, hotel and residence based sex workers (HRSWs) become targets of the diffe...
Md. Nadiruzzaman, Hosna J. Shewly, Afsana Afrin Esha
Plastic, an offer of modernity, has become one of the essential parts of our everyday life. However, it is presenting a massive threat in altered forms, to our health and environment. Plastic does not only pollute the surface environment, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, but toxic elements release...
Hosna J. Shewly
Drawing on ethnography, this paper unravels the intricate relationship between survival tactics and legal status in the complex process of survival mobility in the ungoverned enclaves of India and Bangladesh. In doing so, I explicate the spaces of survival of the undocumented enclave dwellers. The s...
Hosna J. Shewly
Hosna J. Shewly
Drawing on conceptualization of statelessness and ethnographic research on crucial insights of rightessness, this paper investigates how the politico‐geographic‐legality constructs statelessness in the enclaves in India and Bangladesh. Following the decolonization process in 1947, both India and Pak...
Hosna J. Shewly
This PhD strives to understand what roles politico-spatial-legality play in shaping everyday life in the enclaves located in the northwest borderland curve in the India-Bangladesh border. Conceptually and legally, an enclave is a fragmented territory of one sovereign power located inside another sov...
Hosna J. Shewly, Ellen Bal, Runa Laila
This article examines the lived experiences of precarity in Bangladesh’s ready‐made garments (RMG) industry, focusing on female migrant workers employed in Dhaka and surrounding industrial areas. Over the past three decades, the growth of the RMG sector has attracted economically disadvantaged rural...
Hosna J. Shewly, Md. Nadiruzzaman, Jeroen Warner
Popular climate change narratives often identify climate change as the prime trigger of all environmental hazards. Consistent and harmonised framing of this relationship by public media, epistemic communities and established institutions continually shapes and reinforces such narratives. These domin...
Hosna J. Shewly
This paper examines the evolving dynamics of protest in urban Bangladesh by analysing the temporal interplay between public space, activism, and state control. Social movements have played a crucial role in shaping Bangladesh’s political landscape, from the 1971 liberation struggle to the transition...
Ellen Bal, Hosna J. Shewly, Runa Laila
Over the last two decades, Bangladesh has experienced a dramatic shift in terms of female rural–urban migration, often referred to as the feminization of migration. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research on young female migrants’ livelihood experiences in Dhaka and Gazipur, this article makes th...
Md. Nadiruzzaman, Hosna J. Shewly, Md. Bazlur Rashid, Sharif A. Mukul et al.
Although Bangladesh is frequently regarded as ‘ground zero’ for climate change, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) have only recently been acknowledged for their environmental vulnerabilities, especially after the devastating rainfall and landslides of 2017. However, attributing these risks solely to...
Hosna J. Shewly, Md. Nadiruzzaman
Illegal movement of people across international borders and the invisible presence of illegal migrants in various megacities' economic activities largely depend on economic globalisation, war, destitution and a state's capacity to rule its international borders. The India-Bangladesh border, the fift...
Hosna J. Shewly
The history of Bangladesh-India border started with the partition in 1947. Bangladesh has inherited the whole India-East Pakistan border as well as the disputes and unresolved issues following her independence on 16 December, 1971. In the pre-9/11 period, organised crime, such as human trafficking, ...
Md. Nadiruzzaman, Hosna J. Shewly, Md. Bazlur Rashid, O. P. Dutta et al.
Though Bangladesh is often labelled as "climate change ground zero," the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) were never considered a significant climate change hotspot until heavy rainfall and consequent landslides in 2017. This shift in problem narrative seemingly overlooks myriad enviro...
Ellen Bal, Hosna J. Shewly, Lorraine Nencel
Using a collaborative ethnographic action-oriented approach, we researched the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of three vulnerable groups of female labour migrants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Our goal was to understand the health challenges faced by these women and work towards effective ...
Ellen Bal, Lorraine Nencel, Hosna J. Shewly, Sanjeeb Drong
This chapter presents the changing situation of female workers in the Ready- Made Garment industry (RMG) and the beauty parlor sector in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, as an outcome of the COVID- 19- virus/ crisis. Both sectors predominantly employ women. Before the pandemic, there were near...
Hosna J. Shewly
This chapter conceptualizes nationalism in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh through a decolonial lens, revealing how majoritarianism, exclusionary policy, and discourse marginalize Indigenous people. By examining the state's colonial behaviors—land expropriation, cultural erasure, spat...
Hosna J. Shewly
This article examines how Khasi Indigenous activists in Bangladesh navigate land dispossession under contested environmental governance. Their struggles against commercial tourism, tea estates, rubber plantations and state-sanctioned deforestation often remain marginal to public debate, as media and...
Md. Nadiruzzaman, Hosna J. Shewly, Sharif A. Mukul, Md. Bazlur Rashid et al.
Although Bangladesh is frequently regarded as 'ground zero' for climate change, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) have only recently been recognized for their environmental vulnerabilities, particularly following the severe rainfall and landslides of 2017. However, attributing these...