Lutfun Nahar Lata is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social Solutions research group at the Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research spans a number of areas, particularly she has developed an impactful program of research into the key social policy topics of precarious work, migration, poverty governance, urban marginality, housing and place-based disadvantage. Lata’s recent work examines the impact of the gig economy on migrant workers in Australia.

• 1. Introduction 2. Space, the Right to the City and Informality 3. Power, Governance, Planning and Resistance 4. Urban Governance, Planning and Informality in Dhaka 5. Urban Informality, Power and Resistance in Dhaka 6. Women, Space and Urban Informality 7 Conclusion

Lutfun Nahar Lata is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social Solutions research group at the Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research spans a number of areas, particularly she has developed an impactful program of research into the key social policy topics of precarious work, migration, poverty governance, urban marginality, housing and place-based disadvantage. Lata’s recent work examines the impact of the gig economy on migrant workers in Australia.

• 1. Introduction 2. Space, the Right to the City and Informality 3. Power, Governance, Planning and Resistance 4. Urban Governance, Planning and Informality in Dhaka 5. Urban Informality, Power and Resistance in Dhaka 6. Women, Space and Urban Informality 7 Conclusion

Lutfun Nahar Lata is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social Solutions research group at the Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research spans a number of areas, particularly she has developed an impactful program of research into the key social policy topics of precarious work, migration, poverty governance, urban marginality, housing and place-based disadvantage. Lata’s recent work examines the impact of the gig economy on migrant workers in Australia.

• 1. Introduction 2. Space, the Right to the City and Informality 3. Power, Governance, Planning and Resistance 4. Urban Governance, Planning and Informality in Dhaka 5. Urban Informality, Power and Resistance in Dhaka 6. Women, Space and Urban Informality 7 Conclusion