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Centering the Margins: The Precarity of Bangladeshi Low-Income Migrant Workers During the Time of COVID-19
American Behavioral Scientist ( IF 2.531 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 , DOI: 10.1177/00027642211000397
Raihan Jamil 1 , Uttaran Dutta 2
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A global outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) has profoundly escalated social, political, economic, and cultural disparities, particularly among the marginalized migrants of the global South, who historically remained key sufferers from such disparities. Approximately 8 million, such workers from Bangladesh, migrated from their homelands to work in neighboring countries, specifically in Southeast Asia and in the Middle East, and also contribute significantly to their country’s economy. As many of the migrant workers work on temporary visas, scholars have expressed concerns about their physical and psychological health such as joblessness, mortality, abuses, daunting stress, and inhabitable living environment. Embracing the theoretical frameworks of critical–cultural communication, this article explores two research questions: (1) What are the emerging narratives of experiencing realities and disparities among the Bangladeshi migrants at the margins? (2) How the migrants negotiated and worked on overcoming the adversities? In doing so, we have closely examined 85 Facebook Pages (number of subscribers: 10,000-1 million), dedicated to issues of Bangladeshi migrant workers to qualitatively analyze emerging mediated discourses (textual, visual, and audiovisual). Our analysis reveals several aspects, including, (1) impact of job insecurities on migrants and their families, (2) living conditions of and abuses on migrants works, (3) negotiations of mental stress by the marginalized migrants, and (4) how community support helps the migrants to survive during the pandemic.



中文翻译:

以利润为中心:在COVID-19时期孟加拉国低收入移民工人的Pre可危

全球范围内冠状病毒的爆发(COVID-19)已严重加剧了社会,政治,经济和文化差异,特别是在全球南方边缘化移民中,他们历来仍是此类差异的主要受害者。大约有800万来自孟加拉国的工人从其家乡移民到邻国,特别是在东南亚和中东工作,也为该国的经济做出了巨大贡献。由于许多民工都持临时签证工作,学者们对他们的身心健康表示担忧,例如失业,死亡率,虐待,艰巨的压力和可居住的生活环境。包含批判性文化交流的理论框架,本文探讨了两个研究问题:(1)在边缘的孟加拉国移民中出现现实和差距的叙事是什么?(2)移民如何通过谈判和努力克服逆境?在此过程中,我们仔细检查了85个Facebook页面(订阅者数量:10,000-1,000,000),这些页面致力于解决孟加拉国移徙工人的问题,以定性分析新兴的中介语篇(文字,视觉和视听)。我们的分析揭示了几个方面,包括:(1)工作不安全感对移民及其家庭的影响;(2)生活条件和虐待对移民作品的影响;(3)边缘化移民的心理压力谈判;以及(4)社区支持可帮助移民在大流行期间生存。

更新日期:2021-03-17
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