Migratory Men

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.

Garth Stahl is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Self-Made Men: Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-in-family Males; Working-Class Masculinities in Australian Higher Education; Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success and Identity; and Neoliberalism and Aspiration: Educating White Working-Class Boys.

Yang Zhao is a doctoral candidate in anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. Based on 13 months of fieldwork in Uzbekistan, his doctoral project investigates how young Uzbek men perceive and practise everyday masculinities in relation to family, religion and state. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on Uzbek masculinities, digital ethnography and HIV education.