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Migration and displacement are integral to the history of the Bengal region. The end of British rule over South Asia in 1947, accompanied by the partition of India, spurred one of the largest mass migrations in history, involving an estimated fifteen million people. As violence along religious lines exploded, displaced Hindus and Muslims moved between India and Pakistan. Movements across national borders are thus part of a regional history that predates Bangladesh as an independent state in 1971. However, it is only after 1971 that we see the development of distinctively Bangladeshi international migration flows and settlements, defined by their relationship to and identification with Bangladesh as a nation-state. In this chapter, the focus us on the growth of Bangladeshi-origin communities in three major destinations—the UK, the US and the GCC (Gulf) states.
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Kibria, N. (2022). The Emerging Diaspora of Bangladesh: Fifty Years of Overseas Movements and Settlements. In: Khondker, H., Muurlink, O., Bin Ali, A. (eds) The Emergence of Bangladesh. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5521-0_20
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