2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

An Empirical Study of Ship Recycling Process in Bangladesh

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22530586
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Ryukoku University
Principal Investigator	SATO Akio 龍谷大学, 社会学部, 教授 (70249514)
Project Period (FY)	2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	リサイクル / バングラデシュ / 発展途上国 / 労働問題 / 環境問題 / 解撤
Research Abstract	As in the case of many other developing countries, the massive influx of immigrants from rural areas to cities in Bangladesh continuously inflates the urban lower class population. The bulk of ship-recycling workers are such urban migrants and their children, who tend to have difficulty in finding a stable job or keeping sufficient income. They barely maintain their family budget by making up income shortfalls through a variety of means such as "circular migration" between their rural village and the city and training of their children as child laborers in order to multiply income earners in the family as early as possible. Such independent measures of livelihood defense by lower-class people are fulfilling important functions in the continuous growth of cities in developing countries despite their inability to provide sufficient jobs or income to the residents.

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