This paper examines how non-resident Bangladeshis mobilized during the 2024 quota-reform turned pro-democracy movement, leveraging social platforms and remittance flows to challenge state authority. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we identify four phases of their collective action: technology-mediated shifts to active engagement, rapid transnational network building, strategic execution of remittance boycott, reframing economic dependence as political leverage, and adaptive responses to government surveillance and information blackouts. We extend postcolonial computing by introducing the idea of "diasporic superposition," which shows how diasporas can exercise political and economic influence from hybrid positionalities that both contest and complicate power asymmetries. We reframe diaspora engagement by highlighting how migrants participate in and reshape homeland politics, beyond narratives of integration in host countries. We advance the scholarship on financial technologies by foregrounding their relationship with moral economies of care, state surveillance, regulatory constraints, and uneven international economic power dynamics. Together, these contributions theorize how transnational activism and digital technologies intersect to mobilize political change in Global South contexts.
翻译:本文研究了非居民孟加拉国人在2024年配额改革演变为亲民主运动期间的动员方式,他们利用社交平台和侨汇流动来挑战国家权威。基于半结构化访谈,我们识别出其集体行动的四个阶段:技术中介转向积极参与、快速建立跨国网络、战略性执行侨汇抵制、将经济依赖重新构建为政治杠杆,以及对政府监控和信息封锁的适应性应对。我们通过引入“侨民叠加态”的概念拓展了后殖民计算研究,该概念展示了侨民如何从既对抗又使权力不对称复杂化的混合位置性中行使政治和经济影响力。我们通过强调移民如何参与并重塑祖籍国政治,超越了其在东道国融入的叙事,从而重构了侨民参与的内涵。我们通过突出金融科技与关怀的道德经济、国家监控、监管约束以及不平衡的国际经济权力动态之间的关系,推进了金融科技领域的学术研究。这些贡献共同构建了一个理论框架,阐释了跨国行动主义与数字技术如何相互交织,以在全球南方背景下动员政治变革。