Strategies to Improve Health Coverage: A Qualitative Study on Nutritional Fact for the Children of Migrant Workers’ to narrow the Equity Gap in Dhaka City from Sociological Perspective

Abstract

A large number of households in Bangladesh embrace short duration rural to urban migration alongside their children to look for informal economic opportunity in the city. While the existing literature has recorded the precarity of such temporary jobs, typically characterized by low wages, insecure jobs, harsh recruitment regimes, and economic vulnerability, little is thought about its implication for children who migrated with their parents to the city. This study causes to notice children of migrant construction and focuses on their general nutritional prosperity, which remains understudied. The goals of this study were to categorize the current nutritional status of children under the age of five and determine the underlying causes of poor nutritional outcomes. The study has been conducted following both primary and secondary method and presented in narrative way to understand the nutrition condition of migrant construction worker’s children in Dhaka city area. This study addresses a critical gap in migration literature in Bangladesh by building a comprehensive narrative of migrant children’s experiences at construction sites.