“We Escape to the Roof to Breathe”: Inhabiting Jordan’s Dormitory Migrant Labor Regime
This article provides intimate insights into workers’ everyday experiences of inhabiting Jordan’s dormitory migrant labor regime. It uses illustrations derived from participatory mapping and drawing workshops with garment workers of diverse nationalities who live and labor in Jordan’s two largest clothing production zones. The mundane and embodied experiences of the dormitory—captured in the maps, drawings, and workers’ accounts that detail the spatial and material conditions of dormitory life—open up an immersive understanding of how life actually unfolds in a workers’ dormitory. In doing so, these materials expose s..
