ABSTRACT
This chapter examines emotional belonging through the ways in which women negotiate their sense of responsibility and duty, and the different factors that intersect to alter their use of and attachment to place over time. It discusses how structural factors in Bangladesh and the UK interact with differing levels of agency over time by examining the influence of gender, ethnicity, culture and patriarchy. The women in this study are part of the early cohort of migrants who migrated at the cusp of the technological revolution. Retention of the home culture through immersion in a transplanted version of Bangladeshi culture was more possible for female than male migrants. The Bangladeshi community is now firmly established in Tower Hamlets. As the community has grown, it appears that there is residential clustering where people from the same area in Sylhet are living in close proximity in Tower Hamlets.
