Built for boats, adrift on land: Bangladesh’s Bede community struggles with a fixed-address system

Built for boats, adrift on land: Bangladesh’s Bede community struggles with a fixed-address system

‘We cannot change the river, and we cannot stop moving’Originally published on Global VoicesBoats and people on the Turag River, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Image via Flickr by Wonderlane. CC BY 2.0. For nomadic Bede families on the Jamuna River in central Bangladesh, moving is a routine part of life. A study published in May 2026 in the journal Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health looked at three nomadic settlements in Tangail district of central Bang…