2021_Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Migrant Construction Workers in Malaysia
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| spelling | 16119 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=16119 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection3 General Document Malaysia Library Staff (Top Management) Library Staff (Management) Library Staff (Support) Terengganu Faculty of Applied Social Sciences English application/pdf 1.5 Server storage Scanned document Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin UniSZA Private Access Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin SAMBox 2.3.4; modified using iTextSharp™ 5.5.10 ©2000-2016 iText Group NV (AGPL-version) Copyright©PWB2025 2022-07-04 351 QUALITY OF LIFE OF BANGLADESHI MIGRANT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IN MALAYSIA (PHD_2021).pdf Md Wahidul Haque Migration management community of practice migrant construction workers 2021_Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Migrant Construction Workers in Malaysia Millions of migrant labours are working in Malaysia from neighbouring countries, including Bangladesh. It is evident from many researches that Bangladeshi workers mostly migrate to Malaysia as unskilled labours. Yet, there is less research on the Quality of Life (QoL) of Bangladeshi migrant construction workers in Malaysia. This study, therefore, aims to explore the indicators and factors affecting their QoL and developing a QoL Model for Bangladeshi migrant construction workers in Malaysia. This study employs mixed-methodology, a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. For qualitative method, an in-depth interview of 30 informants, and observations of 13 construction sites were conducted. The quantitative method used questionnaire survey to interview 385 respondents from four states of peninsular Malaysia. The scope of the study covered only the Bangladeshi construction workers who have been working in Malaysia for less than ten years. Thematic analysis by Atlas ti was used for qualitative analysis, and descriptive and inferential statistics were used for quantitative analysis by SPSS and Smart PLS. The finding of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicates that the exogenous constructs predict 47% of the endogenous construct (R 2 = 0.470). Results show that most of the workers staying for less than eight years are leading a low and medium QoL. The result also shows that the second order constructs namely income, expenses, saving, ownership, health and housing are the main indicators of the workers’ QoL. The result also indicates a significant relationship of the factors, namely support, job, religion and community with QoL. The result further indicated that religion contributes most significantly towards QoL. On the contrary, education and training, and security and freedom are not significant to Bangladeshi workers’ QoL. In line with the quantitative results, the thematic analysis indicated that overemphasise on economic activities and misconceptions regarding security and freedom are leading the workers towards a low QoL. This study is able to establish a QoL model named as “Butterfly Model” for Bangladeshi construction workers in Malaysia. Results can be used to improve the QoL of Bangladeshi workers, along with the economic benefit of both Malaysia and Bangladesh. Dissertations, Academic Migrant Labour Well-being Socioeconomic Factors Malaysian Construction Sector Thesis |
| spellingShingle | 2021_Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Migrant Construction Workers in Malaysia |
| state | Terengganu |
| subject | Migration management community of practice migrant construction workers Dissertations, Academic |
| summary | Millions of migrant labours are working in Malaysia from neighbouring countries, including Bangladesh. It is evident from many researches that Bangladeshi workers mostly migrate to Malaysia as unskilled labours. Yet, there is less research on the Quality of Life (QoL) of Bangladeshi migrant construction workers in Malaysia. This study, therefore, aims to explore the indicators and factors affecting their QoL and developing a QoL Model for Bangladeshi migrant construction workers in Malaysia. This study employs mixed-methodology, a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. For qualitative method, an in-depth interview of 30 informants, and observations of 13 construction sites were conducted. The quantitative method used questionnaire survey to interview 385 respondents from four states of peninsular Malaysia. The scope of the study covered only the Bangladeshi construction workers who have been working in Malaysia for less than ten years. Thematic analysis by Atlas ti was used for qualitative analysis, and descriptive and inferential statistics were used for quantitative analysis by SPSS and Smart PLS. The finding of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) indicates that the exogenous constructs predict 47% of the endogenous construct (R 2 = 0.470). Results show that most of the workers staying for less than eight years are leading a low and medium QoL. The result also shows that the second order constructs namely income, expenses, saving, ownership, health and housing are the main indicators of the workers’ QoL. The result also indicates a significant relationship of the factors, namely support, job, religion and community with QoL. The result further indicated that religion contributes most significantly towards QoL. On the contrary, education and training, and security and freedom are not significant to Bangladeshi workers’ QoL. In line with the quantitative results, the thematic analysis indicated that overemphasise on economic activities and misconceptions regarding security and freedom are leading the workers towards a low QoL. This study is able to establish a QoL model named as “Butterfly Model” for Bangladeshi construction workers in Malaysia. Results can be used to improve the QoL of Bangladeshi workers, along with the economic benefit of both Malaysia and Bangladesh. |
| title | 2021_Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Migrant Construction Workers in Malaysia |
| title_full | 2021_Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Migrant Construction Workers in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | 2021_Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Migrant Construction Workers in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | 2021_Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Migrant Construction Workers in Malaysia |
| title_short | 2021_Quality of Life of Bangladeshi Migrant Construction Workers in Malaysia |
| title_sort | 2021_quality of life of bangladeshi migrant construction workers in malaysia |