The Study of Causes of Luggage Transportation by Women from Qeshm to Tehran and its Moral Consequences

This study addresses the question "What causes moral issues in luggage transport and what are the consequences for transporter women and their families?”, with an interpretive approach and qualitative methodology, by data collection to theoretical data saturation by 50 half-structured interviews conducted among 30 transporter women and 20 experts who have been assigned through targeted and snowball sampling. The data are analyzed based on Strauss and Corbin’s grounded theory. In open coding, 96 concepts and 917 conceptual implications, in axial coding, 26 categories, and in the selective coding, the core category of "immorality/ morality" were determined. Respondents have assessed baggage transport with positive consequences of adherence to moralities and maintaining a decent life, and negative consequences of immorality, prostitution, and wrong judgment about all transporter women. In the grounded model, Mental and family problems, lack of job opportunities, failure to address the poor, financial need, inevitability, providing living expenses and creating prosperity were considered as causal conditions. Travel and transportation costs, the difficulty of transportation, route and shopping, customs and railways violation of law, administrative and government corruption, contextual conditions, women withholding facts, moral insecurity, Prostitution boom in Qeshm, favorable context of the immoral issues were considered as interfering conditions in the moral consequences of luggage transport process.