Bangladesh is a country of manifold disasters, most prominently water-induced disasters that inundate vast areas, submerging human habitat, etc., causing massive damage to the life and property of affected people each year and forced the people to migrate to the slums mostly located in Dhaka city, for mere survival. This study aims to investigate how and why they had to migrate to the slums to ensure their subsistence in the face of wreckage resulting from frequent water-induced disasters. It unveiled adaptive strategies used by those who were desperate for life and had no alternatives to deal with water-induced disasters year after year. It also explores the ways the affected people accept their fate through migration to the slums, their sufferings and helplessness in their native place as well as in the slum, and the process of resilience they gradually develop out of necessity. The study was conducted in five slums located in Dhaka, where water-induced disaster-affected people were forced to migrate. It is a qualitative study based on data collected from primary as well as secondary sources. Altogether, 30 household heads were picked up from 5 slums, six from each, using an accidental sampling technique. The findings of the study show that affected people are forced to accept their vulnerabilities, helplessness, and powerlessness as no other alternative is available before them for survival. It further shows that the suffering people adopt assorted resilience processes through migration to slums and their acceptance of slum life that seems to have sealed their fate.