Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2025 (SSCI, Scopus)
This study explores how low-wage Bangladeshi migrant workers in Mauritius make moral and emotional sense of structurally precarious labour. While existing migration research highlights exploitation and marginality, less attention has been paid to how migrants interpret and endure the everyday absurdities and ethical dissonance of their working lives. Drawing on 17 in-depth, narrative-informed interviews and informed by Narrative Identity Theory and the Moral Economy of Migration, this study shows how migrants frame themselves as dutiful sons, sacrificial providers, and morally committed workers. Through co-constructed, culturally grounded stories, they navigate debt, silence, deception, and affective exhaustion–crafting fragile but meaningful identities within systems that often deny recognition. These findings contribute to critical perspectives on work and migration by showing how meaninglessness is both produced and morally contested through narrative as a performative, ethical practice of endurance.