Shifting peripheries: Dhaka's rickshaw garages and mess dormitories as spaces of work and movement

This article considers how urban peripheries are made and unmade by forms of “shifting”. We examine these shifts from the perspective rickshaw garages mess dormitories in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which both offer makeshift working living arrangements to rural–urban migrants. By explicitly situating spaces as part movements crisscrossing trajectories that animate peripheries, we challenge tendency scholarship analyze peripheral marginalized primarily through lens habitation. Breaking with residentialist sedentarist approaches space, present enabling undergoing various shifting, their occupants move alternate between different places, neighborhoods, spatial establish a continuity work income. argue manoeuvring possible degree malleability reflects territorial impermanence periphery itself, is continuously pushed sideways tandem processes precariousness improvement. directing attention “shifting” “makeshift”, contribute less static understanding labor migrants try hold place city amidst wider exclusion, expansion, densification.