Refugee men as perpetrators, allies or troublemakers? Emerging discourses on men and masculinities in humanitarian aid

Olivius, Elisabeth

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2015.12.004

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“…The discourses that emerge do "…not refer to the "truth" and "knowledge" that the North has discovered and accumulated about the South, but rather the ways in which regimes of "truth" and "knowledge" have been produced" (Doty, 1996, p. 2). Following Doty (1996), Shepherd (2015) and Olivius (2016a) this piece employs discourse analysis to reveal the "political implications of dominant discursive constructions" (Olivius, 2016a, p. 57). It sought to identify the ways in which knowledge is produced, structured and then legitimized within security practices and institutions.…”

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“…Inspired by poststructural and postcolonial perspectives, feminist scholarship within International Relations (IR) has drawn attention to structural inequalities and divisions between the Global North and the Global South (Agathangelou and Turcotte, 2015;Doty, 1996;McKinnon, 2016;Mohanty, 1988;Olivius, 2016aOlivius, , 2016bSaleh, 2016;Spivak, 1988;Steans, 2013). This work has highlighted the inherent ethnocentrism and "occidentalism" (Brunner, 2016, p.383) within hegemonic (read western) discoursesand knowledge production more generally -around peace, development and global security.…”

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Security, peace and development: Unpacking discursive constructions of wartime rape and sexual violence in Syria

Banwell¹

2018

Int. J. Peace and Dev. Stud

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The 'rape-as-a-weapon' of war narrative has been particularly influential in the securitization of sexual violence. Drawing upon ideas about the fetishization of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV), this article unpacks the language used within this security paradigm. Using an original case study, discourse analysis is used to unpack how policymakers, activists and the news media construct a 'truth' about rape and sexual violence committed in Syria. It is argued that the international political economy of this conflict is being obscured by a biopolitical security agenda that prioritizes CRSV. The foreign policy implications of this security narrative are reviewed within the broader context of International Peace and Development. Using secondary data analysis, this study examines how gendered dimensions of the Syrian conflict interact with global economic and local state/military practices to; reinforce existing patterns of violence against women and girls and expose them to new forms of gender-based violence. Analyzing concepts such as 'rape-as-a-weapon of war' and terms such as 'widespread' and 'systematic', findings suggest that the selective focus on wartime rape and sexual violence in Syria, particularly by extremist groups, precludes an understanding of the complexities of conflict violence and impedes efforts to eliminate it

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Security, peace and development: Unpacking discursive constructions of wartime rape and sexual violence in Syria

Banwell¹

2018

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“…The idea that refugee men need to be educated to change their views on sexuality and gender is strongly represented in 'Western' politics and policies (Eriksson Baaz and Stern 2013;Olivius 2016;Stretmo 2014). It tends to be a discourse based on cultural or racial assumptions, for instance through the envisioned traditional cultural immigrant (Olivius 2016).…”

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“…It tends to be a discourse based on cultural or racial assumptions, for instance through the envisioned traditional cultural immigrant (Olivius 2016). This can be related to what Alexander (2000) calls a privileging of race in relation to 'black masculinity'.…”

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‘Becoming’ a possible threat: masculinity, culture and questioning among unaccompanied young men in Sweden

Herz

2018

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To cite this article: Marcus Herz (2018) A debate on masculinity and immigration rose across Europe in 2015 after an incident with sexual harassments taking place in Cologne, Germany. The incident refuelled a debate positioning unaccompanied young men as a possible threat. This article is based on a research project where we during this time ethnographically followed 20 young men, having arrived in Sweden as 'unaccompanied' minors. The aim is to examine how the young men themselves talk about, reflect on and negotiate masculinity and gender during this period. The article concludes that masculinity cannot be approached as something stable easily being inherited or transferred from one's origins. One difference for 'unaccompanied' young men is how conflicts or tensions emerging in relation to issues of gender and masculinity tend to be interpreted differently, and publicly, putting the young men in a 'gendered situation of questioning'.

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Feminist Scholarship in Europe on the Politics of International Migration

Cleton

Bonjour

2022

Feminist IR in Europe

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This chapter presents an overview of feminist scholarship on the politics of international migration by Europe-based scholars, explaining that feminist IR scholarship makes up a small and recent part of a wider, rich tradition of feminist migration studies. It shows how feminist IR scholarship on migration focuses on familiar IR themes (security and conflict); shifts traditional IR frames from the global to the local; and foregrounds the discursive constructions of people on the move and their embodied experiences. In drawing parallels between these studies and the wider field, the chapter highlights pathways for future interdisciplinary and global collaboration.

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Refugee men as perpetrators, allies or troublemakers? Emerging discourses on men and masculinities in humanitarian aid

Abstract: Refugee men as perpetrators, allies or troublemakers?: Emerging discourses on men and masculinities in humanitarian aid

Cited by 58 publications

References 12 publications

Security, peace and development: Unpacking discursive constructions of wartime rape and sexual violence in Syria

Security, peace and development: Unpacking discursive constructions of wartime rape and sexual violence in Syria

‘Becoming’ a possible threat: masculinity, culture and questioning among unaccompanied young men in Sweden

Feminist Scholarship in Europe on the Politics of International Migration

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