দুই ভুবন | Dui Bhubon

Dui Bhubon Foundation is collaborating with the Toronto Theatre Forum (TTF) for a live performance “Return of Luca”. The play follows a family raising Luca, a nonverbal autistic teenager.

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The Dui Bhubon Foundation is sponsoring up to 6 Bangladeshi-Canadian youth between 18-35 years old for the 2026 Toronto Waterfront Marathon.

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Dr. Mustahid Husain is conducting research for an upcoming book Bangladeshi Fatherhood: Parenting Reimagined Across Rivers and Oceans. We are seeking additional participants for this project, and selected individuals will be compensated for their contributions.

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An Overview

In the Greater Toronto Area, home to two-thirds of Canada’s approximately 130,000-strong Bangladeshi diaspora, as well as across other major diasporic sites outside Bangladesh, fathers navigate complex terrains of identity, expectation, and cultural transformation. This proposed book aims to examine how Bangladeshi fathers living outside Bangladesh, including both first-generation immigrants and those raised in their host countries, are reimagining fatherhood as they balance traditional Bangladeshi values with contemporary parenting approaches, creating hybrid models of masculinity and care that challenge conventional notions of both contexts.

Through intimate ethnographic portraits and participatory research methods, this book reveals the lived experiences of Bangladeshi fathers across generational divides. It explores how first-generation immigrant fathers carry forward, and sometimes reproduce, patterns from their own upbringing while simultaneously adapting to transnational and host-country contexts; how second-generation fathers negotiate between the expectations they experienced as children and the parents they aspire to become; and how economic pressures, religious practices, and gender ideologies shape everyday parenting decisions. By centering fathers’ voices and experiences, this book challenges stereotypical portrayals of South Asian immigrant masculinity and offers a nuanced understanding of how diasporic fatherhood is being actively reconstructed.

The proposed book intends to address a critical gap in scholarship on South Asian diaspora communities, Muslim masculinities, and transnational fatherhood. While considerable attention has been paid to immigrant mothers and to youth experiences, fathers remain largely invisible in academic and policy discussions, treated either as authoritarian figures imposing “traditional” expectations or absent from the conversation entirely. This book positions fathers as active agents in cultural negotiation and family well-being, examining how their parenting practices both shape and respond to the mental health challenges, identity struggles, and aspirations of their children.

More specifically, this book pursues three interconnected objectives:

1. To document the diverse parenting philosophies, practices, and emotional experiences of Bangladeshi fathers across generational, geographic, and socioeconomic contexts;
2. To analyze how fathers understand and navigate their roles in relation to their children’s mental well-being, gender identity, career aspirations, and cultural belonging; and,
3. To illuminate the structural, cultural, and personal factors that enable or constrain fathers’ capacity to provide emotionally supportive, culturally attuned, and gender-affirming parenting.