The paper examines the features of suburban poor and present conditions of suburban poor people with reference to Savar areas. Data have been collected from twenty urban poor living near Savar Puroshova by using a semi structured interview questions for case study. The paper reveals that the poor men face more extreme poverty and vulnerability than women in terms of their economic, cultural and social conditions. The thesis also found that suburban poverty in the Savar areas was mostly affected by masculinization of poverty instead of the feminization of poverty. It makes a contribution to understanding and analysis of the phenomenon of rapid urbanization in the Third World like Bangladesh and its social consequences as the formation of frequent suburban mess hall like slums and new forms of urban poverty. Finally, the suburban poor are largely dependent on their household, income, employment, medical facilities, and social networking. The paper also indicates that significant portions of the suburban dwellers are lived mostly in informal house and are living below the poverty lines.

1. Sub-urbanization and New Sub-
urban Poverty In Bangladesh
Sajedul Islam Khan
Lecturer
Department of Sociology
Bangladesh University
04 August, 2018

2. Sub-urbanization and Sub-urban Poverty
 Sub-urban poverty is the main problem of the developing countries .Suburban poverty is the
term used to describe the poor quality of life and new form of deprivation both migrants and
local people.
 Rapid population growth, industrialization and changing consumption patterns are generating
amounts of suburban poverty
 Every day 800 million people stay hungry in which 300 are children. 2.6 billion People of the
world’s population (40 percent) are depriving from basic sanitation and one billion people are
suffering to unsafe drinking water (UN Millennium Project, 2014)
 The world is urbanizing rapidly, especially in developing countries, where, by 2020, more than
half the population is projected to be urban (United Nations, 2013)
 Bangladesh is an integral part of the urban transformation and it is gradually making the shift
from rural to urban.

3. Sub-urbanization and Sub-urban Poverty
Reasons for Choosing the Topic:
 Growth of rural to sub-urban migration due to suburbanization
 Rural livelihood changing
Raising non-agricultural activities
 Displacements of rural population from their land
The rise of proliferation of slum/mess,
The prevalence of dangerous diseases
Growth of informal sectors.
 The rise of dependency on NGOS

4. Sub-urbanization and Sub-urban Poverty
Focus Points:
My focus points are following :
To discuss the characteristics of suburban poverty and vulnerability experienced by poor people
To show the present conditions of suburban poor.
To identify relationship between sub-urbanization and sub-urban poverty
Importance of my topic:
To seek social, cultural and behavioral changes of poor
To contribute to the development of sociological knowledge on suburban poverty
To contribute to policy perspectives about suburban poverty in Bangladesh

5. Sociological View
Theory of Culture of Poverty
Developed by Oscar Lewis in his book Five Families
Few selected families were studied with the traditional techniques, that is, participation observation,
questionnaire and psychological tests.
The ‘family’ was chosen as the unit of study.
Lewis (1966) defined the ‘culture of poverty’ as a subculture, which reflected both an adaptation and a
reaction of the poor to their marginal position in class-stratified, highly individuated, capitalist society.
This subculture developed out of underdevelopment and rural-urban migration leading to rapid urban
growth and both unemployment and underemployment.
Lewis regarded a ‘culture of poverty’ as a “defense mechanism without which the poor could hardly
carry on.

6. Methodology
Research method:
Case Study and Focus Group Discussion (20 respondents both male and female)
Data collection:
Primary data (In-depth interview of suburban Poor)
Secondary data (Documents, Reports, Official Statistical data and Other sources)
Measures of suburban poverty
Socio-demographic variables: neighborhood and habitat types, age, gender, marital status, education,
migration pattern, urban residence and household organizations.
Economic variables: employment pattern, household income, savings, loans .
Physical variables: quality of housing, urban infrastructure facilities

7. Methodology
Social variables: access to social services, family pattern, social networking
Definitions of key terms:
Suburbanization ( general process of the expansion and spatial reorganization of metropolitan
settlements. The portion of a metropolitan area that is not in the central city)
Sub-urban poverty (the poor suffer from various deprivations, like lack of access to employment;
adequate housing and services; social protection; and lack of access to health services, inedequated
educational and personal security )
Unemployment and Job insecurity (Job insecurity is a situation in which employees feel uncertain
about the stability of their jobs)
Study Area- Savar Municipality (Pourashava)

8. Findings
 The majority of the respondents are living in tin shed house
 Female position is very noticeable and comfortable than male
 Most of the male respondents are unmarried
 Men have taken primary education but they have few job facilities because they can do
movement in garments factories
 The number of Madrasha education and mess hostels are increasing
 Mostly women have saving account but men have few savings account.
 Mother-centered single parent families are increasing

9. The Need for Future Research
 Further qualitative studies are needed for exploring employment vulnerability of the
‘informal’ poor
 The future research needs to highlight criminal and drug users behavior of suburban poor.
 Future research is essential for exploring causes and consequences of political marginality in
such Sub-urban contexts
 The future research needs to highlight the development of masculinization of poverty instead
of feminization of poverty

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