ABSTRACT

This article explores how young people navigate their aspiration to education and work within precariousness in a camp in Bangladesh. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the findings presented in this paper illustrate how gender and generational expectations play mediating roles in young people’s aspiration formation. The discussions present that the relationship between aspiration construction and affective orientations for young people is more complex than often imagined. The findings shed light on the importance of having a more nuanced and relational understanding of young people’s affective expressions and experiences that navigate their aspiration formation and shape experiences of sacrifice, suffering, seclusion, and hope.

摘要

本文探讨了年轻人如何驾驭他们对教育的渴望，并在孟加拉国一个营地的不稳定中工作。借鉴在孟加拉国达卡的一个讲乌尔都语的比哈里语营地进行的民族志研究，本文提出的研究结果说明了性别和代际期望如何在年轻人的愿望形成中发挥中介作用。讨论表明，年轻人的抱负构建和情感取向之间的关系比通常想象的要复杂。这些发现揭示了对年轻人的情感表达和经历进行更细致和相关的理解的重要性，这些情感表达和经历引导他们形成愿望并塑造牺牲、苦难、隐居和希望的经历。