Migratory Men by Stahl, Garth; Zhao, Yang;

Short description:

This volume explores the theorization of transnational men in a global context, considering whether the experiences of men in relation to the economy, gendered expectations, politics and technologies contribute to the reimagination of local patterns of masculinity and femininity, or lead to reaffirmations of prescriptive gender roles.

Long description:

Foregrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration, Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we conceptualise and theorise mobile men in a global context.

Bringing together studies from around the world (e.g. Australia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Zimbabwe and Italy), this collection foregrounds how the transnational migratory experience profoundly reshapes men’s complex identity practices. Specifically, the collection highlights how transnational migratory aspirations and experiences often lead men to reimagine local patterns of masculinity and/or reaffirm prescriptive gender roles as they encounter new spaces/places. In presenting interdisciplinary research, the international scholars consider the powerful roles of economics, politics and social class in shaping masculinities. Furthermore, the contributors emphasise how men affectively and agentically experience migration and how interaction with new spaces/places can often lead to negotiations between disempowerment and empowerment.

As such, this collection will appeal to both non-academic readers who share transnational migratory aspirations and experiences and academic readers across the social sciences with interests in gender and sexuality, migration and diaspora, transnationalism and contemporary masculinities.

Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

Introduction; Chapter 1 Contemporary Arab-American masculinities written by women: Intersections of transnationalism, ageing and affect; Chapter 2 Postcolonial migration as an escape from emasculation: The satanic verses and the Indian middle-class quest for masculinity; Chapter 3 Boys to men: Shifting literary representations of racialised migrant boys in Australia; Chapter 4 Degrees of care: Theorising the masculinities of Indian international students in Australian universities; Chapter 5 Breaking the state of exception: Post-coloniality, masculinity and political agency among racialised refugee men in Sicily; Chapter 6 Muslim masculinities under siege? Masculinity, religion and migration in the life stories of Muslim men married outside their religious group in Belgium and Italy; Chapter 7 Entrepreneurs of desperation: Young men and migration in interior Tunisia; Chapter 8 Be your own boss: The role of digital labour platforms in producing migrant masculinity(s); Chapter 9 Globalisation, masculinities and the domestic space: Men employing migrant reproductive workers in Italy; Chapter 10 Protective migrant masculinity: Between marginalisation and privilege; Chapter 11 Migration and mutual articulation with normative masculinity in Zimbabwe; Chapter 12 Postcolonial histories, state containment and securing (dis)locating young masculinities in a transnational urban space; Chapter 13 Masculine anxieties of undocumented South Asian male agricultural workers in Greece: Productive use of bordering regimes and potential emasculation by racial capitalism; Chapter 14 Migration trajectories in Southern Africa: The masculinity fix between Maputo and Johannesburg; Chapter 15 Migratory masculinities and vulnerabilities: Temporality and affect in the lives of irregularised Pakistani men; Chapter 16 ‘I came to Australia with very big hope, big wishes, big goals’: Applying ‘mobility work’ and ‘resettlement work’ to explore the emotional labour and subaltern masculinities of refugee-background men