The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

The British citizens of Bangladesh descent at a seminar in the city presented an observation report in which they claimed that the Bangladeshi restaurant owners discriminate between Bangladeshi irregular male and female workers in wages.

The Bangladeshi businessmen in the UK take excess money for sponsoring one-year work permit. Besides, these hapless migrant workers, especially female workers were exploited sexually on their arrival in the UK.

The self-financed Bang-ladeshi undergraduate and graduate students having enrolment in colleges in the UK were facing discrimination and cannot continue their studies.

The third generation Bangladeshis in the UK are unwilling to visit their ancestral home.

These findings, among others, were highlighted at the seminar on 'Emotional Linkage of Bangladeshi Origin 3rd Generation in the UK with Bangladesh: A Participant Observation' organised by Bangladesh Data Management and Research Centre (BDMRC) at the National Press Club yesterday.

To raise the emotional bond of the third generation to Bangladesh, every parent should teach their children some good aspects of Bangladesh along with the necessity to learn Bengali language and culture, as Bangladesh is their country of origin, the expatriates opined.

Prof Dr John Clammer, Adviser to the Rector of United Nations University of Tokyo in Japan, presided over the session, while Prof Dr M Mazharul Islam, Chairman of Statistics Department of Dhaka University, Prof Dr M Nurul Islam, among others, spoke. Md Aminul Islam Monju, researcher and Chief Executive of BDMRC, presented keynote speech.

As remittances of Bangladeshi migrants play a vital role in the Bangladesh economy, Bangladesh government should take special care to ease the process for receiving remittances from abroad, said the expatriates.

The survey also showed that a high growth rate of higher education exists among those expatriate children whose parents spend much time in looking after their children's education.