Jamil Raihan, Dutta Uttaran
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
Am Behav Sci. 2021 Sep;65(10):1384-1405. doi: 10.1177/00027642211000397.
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.
冠状病毒(COVID-19)的全球大流行极大地加剧了社会、政治、经济和文化差异,尤其是在全球南方的边缘化移民群体中,他们历来都是这些差异的主要受害者。来自孟加拉国的约800万此类工人从家乡迁移到邻国工作,特别是在东南亚和中东地区,他们也为该国经济做出了重大贡献。由于许多移民工人持临时签证工作,学者们对他们的身心健康表示担忧,如失业、死亡率、虐待、巨大压力和不适宜居住的生活环境。本文采用批判性文化传播的理论框架,探讨两个研究问题:(1)处于边缘地位的孟加拉国移民在经历现实和差异方面出现了哪些新的叙述?(2)移民们是如何协商并努力克服逆境的?为此,我们仔细研究了85个Facebook页面(订阅人数:1万至100万),这些页面专门讨论孟加拉国移民工人的问题,以定性分析新兴的媒介话语(文本、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)移民工人的生活条件和遭受的虐待;(3)边缘化移民对心理压力的应对;(4)社区支持如何帮助移民在疫情期间生存下来。
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