Migrant labor subjecthood is formed by imagining destinations against structural constraint
Evidence
Thus, for transnational migrants, the process of imagining global destinations becomes an important part of reconciling the rigors of migrantsā work with the desired pleasure and rewards of travel abroad. In the process of subject formation, migrant workers engage in a constant mapping of the labor diaspora. As much as the migrants exert agency in this process, however, structural features of the migration industry and the labor diaspora conļ¬ne their life worlds to a speciļ¬c set of possibilities. Although the actual experience of migration is ļ¬lled with failures and disappointment, success is part of how migration is continually imagined. ā Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 577
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces the concept of āconstant mapping of the labor diasporaā as a subject-formation process for migrants.