Dreaming Cleaning is a documentary photography project based on my lived experience as a qualified migrant working as a domestic cleaner in Australia. The work explores labor precarity and the growing disconnection between education and economic survival, where accumulated cultural capital fails to translate into material stability.

Raised within a meritocratic framework, migration destabilized the promise of upward mobility via education. The acceptance of labor roles disconnected from one’s training produces sustained psychological strain, affecting self-perception and identity dislocation. While personal, the project reflects a broader condition affecting many contemporary migrants.

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