Abstract
Amidst the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, migrants are the most affected parts after the Health and economy. More than half a million migrants have returned from February to May 2020 to Bangladesh. The state and society have stigmatized returnee expatriates as suspected disease carriers. Some of them are being physically assaulted and humiliated by their neighbor and society. Researchers revealed a new dimension of "Othering" discourse; where consent of hate crime formed being solely blamed for bring coronavirus and ignoring mandatory quarantine period. The government officially stigmatized them by putting quarantined seals at their hands and hoisting red flags at their homes. Interestingly, we have found the distinction of stigmatization between returnee expatriates, where returnee workers were being humiliated rather than high-skilled returnee professionals from a so-called developed country. Returnee expatriates experienced a transformation of identity. Researchers argued about the discursive formation of a class of returnee expatriates who were once highly respected and spoiled of their identity as a probable source of virus carrier. Once labeled as a remittance fighter of the economy have to transients their so-called positions, and has to prove their worthiness as a citizen of the state, after starting the pandemic, governments and their developing partners were not humane, concerned about the returnee expatriates' social discrimination, risk of unemployment, uncertainty, economic crisis, and instability. Returnee expatriates' abandonment as a suspected carrier of the COVID-19 virus by the state and society should be worked out more comprehensively to protect them from social and economic exploitation.
Highlights
Coronavirus (COVID-19) attacked the whole world in such a way that all are stuck
Who is the Carrier: To begin the discussion here, first of all, we have to identify who a migrant is? Internationally it is recognized "a migrant as any person who is moving or has moved across an international border or within a State away from his/her habitual place of residence, regardless of (1) the person’s legal status; (2) whether the movement is voluntary or involuntary; (3) what the causes for the movement are; or (4) what the length of the stay is (The UN Migration Agency (IOM)). According to this short term or long term, businessman or worker, illiterate or literate, male or female, old or young, legal or illegal, permanent or temporary, forced or deliberate all are treated as a migrant
The survey shows that 95 percent of migrants are still considered "household members" and not "emigrants". [BBS (2012), p. 19, p. 322.]
Summary
Coronavirus (COVID-19) attacked the whole world in such a way that all are stuck. If we moot the virus's impingement on people's lives, it will be a rhapsody. Though the virus affects all sorts of people, the vulnerability is not the same. Bangladesh is persistent in its economic growth amidst global uncertainties (World Bank-2017). This coronavirus is hampering the stable economy and bringing forth a fundamental question of whether people should focus on life or economy. In Bangladesh's economy, one of the most influential sectors of GDP is foreign remittance. The coronavirus affected the world economy, and that is why foreign remittance is down
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