Moral Deference and Respect

It is inspiring to see how Tmail women renovate, add, and transform their houses in the line rooms. They adapt to their foreign conditions by creating assemblages and building connections with the soil, creating Ūr in and out of the physical house. I agree with the author’s criticism of the Centre for Policy Alternatives report, which says, “This house is not a home.” The author points out, “These speech acts are not born of ill will; rather, they rightly call out the intergenerational injustices of depriving a minority community of land and housing rights over a sustained period. But they also do not account for the workers’ investments that transform unlivable, inhumane spaces into livable homes (124). This positionality statement that respects interlocutors’ agency calls for not only moral deference but also respect when we try to understand the suffering experiences others have. How we go solve the problem while centering the helped people’s experiences remains a problem for policy making. What will interest me further is what Tmail women think should be their desirable assistance and houses that create a sense of Ūr.

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