Abstract:
Bangladesh and natural disaster are closely related to each other because of the geographical
location of it. Natural disaster, affected people by these disasters and migration of these
people to urban areas or mega city is not unknown to the country. Environmental degradation
and natural disasters play a contributing role in affecting population movement. People are
forced to move from rural to urban areas. Some experts declare that number of incidents, that
cause people to leave their houses and fields due to natural disasters, is increasing rapidly
and they perceive this as a global serious issue. The work explores the subject of
environmental refugees as a significant group of migrants, includes definition of the term,
explanation of main reasons for fleeing the people from their habitats and the socio economic
condition of the environmental refugees before and after the migration. There is a huge
difference between their present and previous socio-economic conditions. Along with their
migration, so many things happen such as difficulties in the local economy and population
pressure on the city. This research is an attempt to find out the comparison between the
previous and present socio economic conditions of the environmental refuges and to suggest
some guidelines to control the migration and to improve their conditions.
