Within the scholarship on precarity, low-waged contract-based migrants are recognized as centrally implicated in precarious employment conditions at the bottom of neoliberal capitalist labor markets. Precarity as a socially corrosive condition stems from both the multiple insecurities of the workplace as disposable labor, and a sense of deportability as migrant subjects with marginal socio-legal status in the host society. Our study of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore contributes to refining understandings of precarity by approaching labor migration as a cumulative, intensively mediated process, whereby risks and vulnerabilities are compounded across different sites in migrants’ trajectories, even as they enact themselves as mobile, aspiring subjects. As a condition-in-the-making, precarity is experienced and compounded, through a continuum beginning in pre-migration indebtedness, multiplying through entanglements with the migration industry, and manifesting in workplace vulnerabilities at destination. It is most finely balanced when predictability and planning yield to arbitrary hope.

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“我生命中的彩票”：新加坡建筑业孟加拉移民工人的移民轨迹和不稳定因素的产生

在关于不稳定的奖学金中，低工资的合同型移民被认为是新自由主义资本主义劳动力市场底部不稳定就业条件的主要参与者。作为一种社会腐蚀​​性条件的不稳定源于作为可支配劳动力的工作场所的多重不安全感，以及作为在东道国社会中具有边缘社会法律地位的移民主体的驱逐感。我们对新加坡的孟加拉建筑工人的研究有助于通过将劳务移民视为一个累积的、密集中介的过程来加深对不稳定的理解，其中风险和脆弱性在移民轨迹的不同地点复杂化，即使他们将自己设定为流动的、有抱负的主体. 作为一种正在形成的条件，不稳定是经历和复合的，通过从移民前负债开始的连续过程，通过与移民行业的纠缠而倍增，并在目的地工作场所表现出脆弱性。当可预测性和计划屈服于任意希望时，这是最精细的平衡。