P002 Spiritual Preneurship of Madura Migrant Women: Household-Based Economic Resilience Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
Abstract
The phenomenon of migration of Madurese women has long been a pillar of the household economy, but it retains the complexity between the workload and the typical spiritual wealth of capital. The presence of the era of artificial intelligence adds a new dimension: migrant women are required to adapt to the latest technology without giving up their religiosity and local wisdom, so an integrated study of this phenomenon is urgent. This research unravels the spiritual practice of preneurship of Madura migrant women as a household-based economic resilience innovation in the midst of AI-based digitalization. The approach used is qualitative with a reflective phenomenology-ethnographic design through a collective case study design. Primary data were obtained from 16 participants—retired and active migrant women in Pamekasan, Sumenep, Sampang, and Bangkalan—through semi-structured in-depth interviews, engaged observations, business digital footprint tracing, and focus group discussions. Secondary data was collected from business books, BP2MI documents, and reputable academic literature. The determination of participants was purposively pursued with the technique of maximum variation until the data was saturated. The analysis combines the interactive models of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, interpreted through the framework of maqāṣid al-syarī'ah, especially the principle of ḥifẓ al-māl. Validity is guaranteed through source triangulation, member checking, and thick descriptions. The results of the research reveal three main conclusions. First, spiritual preneurship is manifested through a combination of commercial dhikr, production alms, and barokah nuanced contracts as productive social-spiritual capital. Second, AI technologies—commercial chatbots, generative AI marketing, and financial applications—are selectively absorbed through religious domestication mechanisms. Third, the combination of spiritual dimensions and AI gives birth to an adaptive economic resilience model that strengthens the household as a production unit as well as a space for safeguarding values. These findings enrich the discourse of sharia economics, contemporary gender-migration studies, and migrant women's empowerment policies rooted in Madura's local wisdom.
Keywords: spiritual preneurship; Madura migrant women; household economic resilience; artificial intelligence; maqāṣid al-syarī'ah
