Filipino Sea Men: Constructing Masculinities in an Ethnic Labour Niche

McKay, Steven C.

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“…Other research addresses men migrants' anxieties over state policies' representations and enforcement of their masculine subordination. For instance, McKay (2007) examines the narratives on masculinity among Filipino seamen. Such narratives are created as a way for them to cope with their threatened masculinity in a highly hierarchical labor niche in which the state, in its desire to secure remittances' flows, promotes its citizens' employability by depicting them as disciplined, obedient, and adaptable to changing work environments.…”

Section: Interplay Of Adulthood and Manhood In Economic Male Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Manhood acts as a crucial aspect in understanding the gendered selves and individuals' hierarchical positionalities (Schrock and Schwalbe 2009), while also capturing the contradictory locations of individuals alongside crosscutting axes of gender and age identity (Anthias 2012). To understand the challenges that migration imposes on progress toward becoming an adult male, anthropological and sociological scholarship has started to address the unsettled relationship between migration and the passage to manly adulthood (McKay 2007;Liu 2010;F. Osella and C. Osella 2000;C.…”

Section: Interplay Of Adulthood and Manhood In Economic Male Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Men’s Migration, Adulthood, and the Performance of Masculinities

Vlase

2018

Gender, Family, and Adaptation of Migrants in Europe

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This chapter examines the ways migration shapes men migrants' adulthood transitions, their performance of masculinities during migration and upon their return, and their narratives of adult male identity. The chapter documents the socially constructed nature of adulthood and provides evidence on the ambivalences and ambiguities that men migrants experience regarding adulthood and manhood as a result of their long-term migration. Tensions involving the duration of stays abroad after migration-12 years, on average-on the one hand, and the difficulties in settling down and establishing unequivocal benchmarks of manly adulthood while living in different cultural and structural contexts, on the other hand, result in unsettling migrants' prior beliefs and goals concerning age and gender identities.This study uses qualitative research encompassing life-story interviews with 12 Romanian men in their early and middle adult years who have lived, on average, more than a decade in different European countries,

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Section: Interplay Of Adulthood and Manhood In Economic Male Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Interplay Of Adulthood and Manhood In Economic Male Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Men’s Migration, Adulthood, and the Performance of Masculinities

Vlase

2018

Gender, Family, and Adaptation of Migrants in Europe

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“…Filipino masculinity has not been at the centre of these discourses largely because of the hyper visibility of Filipina women in the Australian imaginary. 8 A small body of work on Filipino male migrant identities elsewhere confirm similar stereotypes (Espana-Maram 2006;McKay 2007;Manalansan 2010) and this paper details Filipino male experiences which feature little in local scholarly analysis of Asian-Australian identities.…”

Section: Bon's Storymentioning

confidence: 54%

More than a Game: Embodied Everyday Anti-Racism among Young Filipino-Australian Street Ballers

Aquino¹

2015

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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This paper explores marginalisation experienced in mainstream basketball by young Filipino-Australian men from Sydney's western suburbs. Sharing findings from a larger ethnographic study undertaken with Filipino immigrants in Sydney on experiences of everyday racism and resistance, this paper uses a biographical account to examine intricate connections between lives and racialising social processes. In sporting contexts, the body and its comportment provide the sites for domination and resistance. The analysis applies Bourdieu's concept of habitus to examine how broad racial formations are embodied in mainstream basketball. Furthermore, this paper examines the ways in which the playing style of 'street ball' is used to engage with corporeality as a mode of everyday anti-racism.

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“…The sense of loss permeated other aspects of their lives too, including a relative decline in their status within both family and wider community, as well as the loss of their middling place within the colonial hierarchy. Moreover, as forced migrants they could not take respite in the sort of double masculine consciousness that has characterized other male migrants (McKay 2007). That is, they did not have a 'home' to which they could eventually return, enabling them to view poor working conditions as a temporary measure before a successful homecoming.…”

Section: Contemporary South Asia 25mentioning

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Oral histories of Ugandan Asians in Britain: gendered identities in the diaspora

Herbert

2009

Contemporary South Asia

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This article draws on life stories with first-generation Ugandan Asians to explore the construction of their collective identities and to highlight the primacy of gender in this process. The article seeks to unpack the meanings configured around salient images in their narratives including the heroic male pioneer, the South Asian housewife and the South Asian woman bereft of her jewellery. These capture important moments in the expression of their collective history; from their father's migration to East Africa, to their life in Uganda and their subsequent expulsion. It is argued that whilst the depiction of the male pioneer epitomised their sense of being successful migrants by surviving and transcending difficulties, the representations of women help to communicate the sudden and profound sense of loss Ugandan Asians felt as they were forced to flee Uganda and resettle in Britain. This sense of loss was multifaceted and was deeply felt by the male respondents. The images of women, particularly during the expulsion, served as a counterpoint to the men's narratives and are contested by the women's own personal stories, which reveal the range of experiences.

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Filipino Sea Men: Constructing Masculinities in an Ethnic Labour Niche

Cited by 114 publications

References 12 publications

Men’s Migration, Adulthood, and the Performance of Masculinities

Men’s Migration, Adulthood, and the Performance of Masculinities

More than a Game: Embodied Everyday Anti-Racism among Young Filipino-Australian Street Ballers

Oral histories of Ugandan Asians in Britain: gendered identities in the diaspora

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