Social network as livelihood strategy of floating labourers of Dhaka Metropolitan, Bangladesh

Livelihood diversification using social capital in the sense has been overlooked by most of the researchers, policy makers and social scientists in the study of urban wage labour and rural-urban migration. The rich people can diversify their livelihoods through growth strategies; however, poorer people who are mostly landless, involved with informal economic sector, day labourer or floating labourer cannot improve their livelihood under existing poverty reduction strategies. They are always looking for opportunities to diversify their livelihoods in the same economic system by using various social capital, relation and networks. Focusing on dynamic of livelihoods diversification, the study focuses that, the current situation of urban floating labourer can be better analysed. The main aim of the paper was to shed light on more dynamic aspects of livelihoods strategy of urban daily based wage labourer of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Using ethnographic data and case studies, hence, this paper has interpreted the process of getting out of poverty as livelihood diversification using social network and social capital, from survival to accumulation