Ansar Anas
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) University of Bonn Bonn Germany.
Glob Netw (Oxf). 2022 Apr 9. doi: 10.1111/glob.12368.
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered unprecedented societal disruption and disproportionately affected global mobility dynamics. Within such a troubled and intensifying crisis, the intersection of migration and gender is even more unsettling. Since the pandemic outbreak, Bangladesh witnessed a colossal crisis among millions of Bangladeshi migrants working overseas-a considerable section of them are women. By highlighting the plight of the Bangladeshi women migrants in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, this study expands the emerging literature that addresses the nexus among migration, pandemic fallout and gendered labour. Redrawing our understanding of globalization from below, the study attempts to further advance the theoretical perspectives on the predicaments of globalization and gendered precarity in contract labour migration. The study argues that the focus on the power asymmetry between the host and sending countries remains too limited to provide a comprehensive understanding of how inequalities are reproduced and transformed. Instead, it suggests that the challenges and disadvantages women migrants endure are embedded in the asymmetries of deep-rooted economic and social structures in tandem with the systemic practice of otherness and exclusion.
新冠疫情引发了前所未有的社会混乱，对全球流动动态产生了不成比例的影响。在这样一场陷入困境且不断加剧的危机中，移民与性别问题的交织愈发令人不安。自疫情爆发以来，孟加拉国数百万在海外工作的移民，尤其是其中相当一部分女性，遭遇了巨大危机。通过突出孟加拉国女性移民在海湾合作委员会（GCC）国家的困境，本研究拓展了新兴文献，这些文献探讨了移民、疫情影响与性别化劳动之间的联系。该研究从底层重新塑造了我们对全球化的理解，试图进一步推进关于合同劳工移民中全球化困境和性别化不稳定状况的理论观点。该研究认为，仅关注东道国与输出国之间的权力不对称，对于全面理解不平等如何被复制和转变来说过于局限。相反，研究表明，女性移民所承受的挑战和不利因素，既深深植根于经济和社会结构的不对称之中，又与他者化和排斥的系统性实践紧密相连。
