Migrant Men Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience [Hardcover]

This edited volume contributes an important collection of chapters to the growing theoretical and empirical work being undertaken at the international level on men and migration. The chapters presented here focus on what we might call migratory masculinities': the experiences men have of masculinity upon immigration into another national, ethnic, and cultural context. How do these men (re)construct their conceptions of masculinity? Where are the points of tension, ambivalence or assimilation in this process? Featuring interviews and data drawn from migrants working and living in Australia, this book explores how the gender identity of men from non-English-speaking backgrounds is influenced by the experiences of migration and settlement in an English-speaking culture, across various cultural spheres such as work, leisure, family life and religion.

Foreword  Michael Kimmel  1. Men and Masculinities on the Move  Raymond Hibbins and Bob Pease  Part I: Theorising Masculinities and Migration  2. Theorising Hegemonic Masculinity: Contradiction, Hegemony and Dislocation  Richard Howson  3. Policy, Men and Transnationalism  Jeff Hearn and Richard Howson  4. Migrants, Masculinities and Work in the Australian National Imaginary Jane Haggis and Susanne Schech  Part II: Regional Patterns of Masculine Migration  5. Immigrant Men and Domestic Life: Renegotiating the Patriarchal Bargain?  Bob Pease  6. Rethinking Masculinities in the African Diaspora  Ndungi wa Mungai and Bob Pease  7. Machismo and the Construction of Immigrant Latin American Masculinities  Paul Crossley and Bob Pease  8. Looking for Respect: Lebanl±