Lost and Abandoned: Spatial Precarity and Displacement in Dhaka, Bangladesh

This article builds upon work which aims to ‘de-exceptionalise’ displacement [Cabot and Ramsey, 2021. Deexceptionalizing Displacement: An Introduction. Humanity: International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, Development, 12(3):286–299] by describing two hitherto unresearched examples ‘unexceptional’ displacement. Both involve abandonment going missing, both throw light on the ways in gender, space emplacement together produce particular vulnerabilities via what I have called ‘spatial precarity’. In first, lost or abandoned girls are held a government-run Safe House outskirts city. second, women displaced from their marriages when husbands go missing. The context is rapidly changing urban environment rapacious development property infrastructure has led cityscape that never stable. environment, socio-political relations constitutive it, helped create conditions certain people get others leading highly gendered forms