BUILT ENVIRONMENT WELL-BEING IN MIGRANT WORKERS' ACCOMMODATION- A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

In the past decades, migrant workers have faced challenges settling down in host countries due to the temporariness of their work and living situations; provided by employers, the workers' accommodations are mostly built economically, barely meeting the minimum standards. Consequently, concerns were expressed concerning how the poor living conditions of migrant workers were affecting the well-being of this community. It is crucial to define migrant workers' well-being in the notion of "temporariness" to design an adequate temporary living space. Therefore, this research aims to establish a theoretical framework for migrant workers' well-being in temporary, collective accommodations. A systematic review was conducted to identify well-being definitions in the published literature on migrant workers' accommodation, focusing only on collective dwellings of low-wage migrant workers. The literature search on Scopus and Science Direct in July 2022 included 28 studies, and the thematic analysis method was used to review the articles. Five key themes were identified: environmental satisfaction, social well-being, psychological well-being, mental well-being, and subjective well-being. These themes form a theoretical framework of "built environment well-being in temporary accommodations" in migrant workers living quarters. The research focused on migrant workers' well-being concerning their living environment as the main research topic. The developed theoretical framework can guide future studies to evaluate built environment well-being in migrant workers' accommodations and establish directions for temporary workers' quarter design.