Between Crisis and Opportunity: Eritrean Refugee Men in Israel Negotiating Masculinity

Birger, Lior; Peled, Einat

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“…As previous studies show, Eritrean women in Israel are highly vulnerable to sexual violence on the job market and to domestic violence (Gebreyesus et al, 2018). However, with regard to their contact with the welfare authorities, Eritrean fathers in Israel often feel neglected in favour of mothers (Birger & Peled, 2021). In the present study, the role of mothers and fathers in providing their children with love and attention was compromised by the burden of long working hours, which (also) stems from their precarious legal status.…”

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‘Here, parents become nothing’: ‘Unparenting’ in Israel's policies toward Eritrean refugees

Birger

Kedem

Nadan

2022

Child & Family Social Work

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Refugees children and families cope with the complexities and opportunities of living in a new country. Based on in-depth interviews with Eritrean parents in Israel and the social workers who serve them, this article explores the relationship between exclusionary state policies, the negative social construction of refugees and parenthood experiences. It presents two main types of unparenting, which can be defined as the interrelation between structural power and the intimate parent-child relationship: direct unparenting, reflecting the physical and psychological impact on parenting of family deportations and welfare interventions in at-risk situations and more veiled unparenting, reflecting the accrual of a lack of legal status and rights and its impactand that of racismon the lack of parental resources such as time, income, education, emotional availability and, ultimately, the ability to 'be parents'. Such precariousness further impairs parents' mental recovery, which in turn negatively impacts children's well-being. Still, parents' resilience is demonstrated by their ability to manage work, family and community life. We conclude by noting a dearth in the research on the impact of socio-political and legal contexts of the familial sphere, as well as the need to politicize social work practice with refugee children and families.

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‘Here, parents become nothing’: ‘Unparenting’ in Israel's policies toward Eritrean refugees

Birger

Kedem

Nadan

2022

Child & Family Social Work

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How hegemonic masculinity injures migrant men: A multilevel analysis of African men in South Korea's low‐wage labor market

Yoon,

Udor

2024

Gender Work & Organization

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With the rapid influx of labor migration and accelerating rates of globalization, studies of hegemonic masculinity have become increasingly divided in representing the amount of agency marginalized men have access to in constructing alternative, more hybrid masculine ideals as they travel overseas. This paper offers a new methodological approach for studying hegemonic masculinity. Specifically, we analyze how multiple forces at the structural, interpersonal, and individual levels work together as a system of oppression. As our case study, we focus on African bachelors who have migrated to South Korea to fill the demand for 3‐d (dirty, difficult, and dangerous) labor. By analyzing 30 interviews and two years of ethnographic observation of African migrants in Korea, our study demonstrates how migrant men become trapped by their desires to perform their masculine worth as reliable wage laborers, even at the cost of their physical and emotional well‐being. While past studies on undocumented migrant workers in Korea have highlighted their heightened exposure to institutional violence, we shed light on how structural forces also bleed into the private spaces of everyday life, shaping the intimate relationships and personal desires of marginalized men themselves.

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Men, Masculinities and Transnational Migration in the Canadian Context: A Scoping Review

Sowad,

Lafrance

2024

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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Our paper examines how scholarly research on transnational migration has addressed gender identities, focusing specifically on the construction of masculinities among transnational migrant men in Canada. While research on transnational female migrants acknowledges their heterogeneous experiences of gender, research on transnational male migrants often presumes that their experiences of gender are largely homogenous. To fill this gap in the literature, our paper presents a scoping review of peer-reviewed research that explores how transnational migration both unmakes and remakes migrant men’s gender identities in the Canadian context. Our study concludes that there is a need for more scholarship relating to transnational migrant men in Canada, particularly that which examines how masculinities are produced by and productive of changing social locations, cultural positionalities, patterns of inequality, and hierarchies of power and privilege.

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Between Crisis and Opportunity: Eritrean Refugee Men in Israel Negotiating Masculinity

Cited by 5 publications

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‘Here, parents become nothing’: ‘Unparenting’ in Israel's policies toward Eritrean refugees

‘Here, parents become nothing’: ‘Unparenting’ in Israel's policies toward Eritrean refugees

How hegemonic masculinity injures migrant men: A multilevel analysis of African men in South Korea's low‐wage labor market

Men, Masculinities and Transnational Migration in the Canadian Context: A Scoping Review

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