The social butterfly: hunted subjectivity and emergent masculinities among refugees

Ingvars, Árdís K.

doi:10.1080/18902138.2019.1668594

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“…Continually emasculated, marginalized, and othered in various encounters, men attempt to recast their masculine status through "manhood acts" (Schwalbe 2005) enacted relationally with each other. Ingvars's (2019) work on male refugee reveals that alternate masculinities get articulated through constant negotiations with self and other males, both co-ethnic and locals. In the case of the South Asian men, the crafting of an alternate subjectivity is done through a "self-valorizing" masculinity.…”

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Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood: Contradictions of Failed Masculinity Among South Asian Male Migrants in Greece

Kukreja

2020

Men and Masculinities

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This article explores the contradictions of the failed masculine stature of South Asian male migrants in Greece. Transnational migration provides low-class rural Indian and Pakistani men an opportunity to socially re-inscribe their adult breadwinner stature. It discusses relational hierarchies of masculinities that shape these men’s encounters with Greek employers, compatriots in Greece, and transnationally located families. Discriminatory state migration and labor regimes intersect with discourses of racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia to reinforce these racialized men’s sense of failed masculinity. Relative powerlessness to a range of local and co-ethnic men further emasculates them. Consequently, they adopt a series of compensatory strategies that include self-valorizing their masculinity relationally vis-à-vis co-ethnic males and Greek male workers. Strategically repositioning self as indispensable to the Greek nation and accentuating personal sacrifice for families notionally transforms them into mythic heroes. Notwithstanding, precarious migrant status in Greece renders hegemonic masculine stature elusive to them.

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Section: Recouping Manhood Through Self-valorizationmentioning

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Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood: Contradictions of Failed Masculinity Among South Asian Male Migrants in Greece

Kukreja

2020

Men and Masculinities

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“…Masculinity is a study on males and masculinities which is related with the context of social (Ingvars, 2019;Knoll & Moreno, 2020); body/body image (Dawson & Hammer, 2020;Jones, 2015;Liao, Shen, Cox, Miller, Sievers, & Werner, 2020); human/ sexual reproduction (Inhorn, 2020;Ekşi, 2017;Joshi, 2020;Polat, 2020;Mohr & Almeling, 2020;Campo-Engelstein, Kaufman, & Parker, 2019), sex (Huysamen, 2015;Javaid, 2017), health (Matthews, 2015;White, Oliffe, & Bottorff, 2012;Norman, 2011;Cogan, Haines, & Devore, 2019;Watkins, 2019;Bradstreet, & Parent, 2018, Sydor, 2010; race (Lehman, 2006;Trautner, Kwan, & Savage, 2013), violence/ crime (Skinner, 2016), work (Rivera, 2020), politics (Luyt & Starck, 2020;Kord, 2020;Kimmel, 2010). Masculinity study is repositioning males in understanding males as male in the context of gender.…”

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The Images of Man in Indonesian Literature

Ahmadi

2022

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The research aims to describe masculinities contained in two Indonesian novels, Orang-orang Biasa and Rafilus. Specifically, the aims are divided into 2, namely (1) how the characters’ behaviors that are represented in the Orang-orang Biasa and Rafilus reviewed from the psychology of masculinities perspective are, and (2) how the impacts of characters’ behaviors on other people represented in the Orang-orang Biasa and Rafilus reviewed from the psychology of masculinities perspective. The theory used in this research was the psychology of masculinities which was related to the psychology of literature. The method used was descriptive qualitative which focused on narrative data exposure. The data collection technique used was a literature review. The data analysis technique was conducted with several steps, namely identifying the data, classifying the data, reducing the data, interpreting the data, describing the data, and verifying the data. The results showed that man's behaviors are represented in several forms. First, the men who have healthy behaviors are the ones who are strong, responsible, and honest. Second, the men who have unhealthy behaviors are the ones that have toxic masculinities which are represented in their behaviors that tend to hurt others and commit crimes.

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“…As such, the men were highly reliant on their employers' lax enforcement of these rules while the papers were inserted in the bureaucratic roundabout. This black-market environment increased the men's anxieties, and they often described working under extremely harsh conditions (Ingvars 2019b). Such experiences were not limited to Greece, as most of the men in this study had resided temporarily in other countries, where they described minimal opportunities and structural discrimination.…”

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5 “I Live Here; I Have a Right to Be Here” An Afghan Refugee’s Disorientations and Insistence on Inclusion through Theater

Bune

2022

Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees

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All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.In a book devoted to the Middle Eastern refugee crisis, we must begin by thanking the many refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria who made this book possible by sharing their lives and stories with us. Many of them have faced incredible hardships and unmitigated human suffering. We dedicate this book to them-hoping that they achieve the safety and settled futures to which they ardently aspire. This book emerged from a meeting that took place at Yale University in September 2019. The meeting brought together for the fi rst time anthropologists studying Middle Eastern refugee populations in various Middle Eastern, European, and North American settings. Here, anthropologists were able to discuss the ways in which war has led to refugee fl ight from the Middle East, and how resettlement in various host countries has unfolded. Their work, now published in this volume, speaks to the cultural, political, and legal challenges that lead to regimes of exclusion in some settings, and regimes of inclusion in others. We are proud of and grateful to these dedicated anthropologists, who are seeking to humanize the vitriolic discourses and political debates surrounding Middle Eastern refugee resettlement in Europe and North America.

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The social butterfly: hunted subjectivity and emergent masculinities among refugees

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood: Contradictions of Failed Masculinity Among South Asian Male Migrants in Greece

Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood: Contradictions of Failed Masculinity Among South Asian Male Migrants in Greece

The Images of Man in Indonesian Literature

5 “I Live Here; I Have a Right to Be Here” An Afghan Refugee’s Disorientations and Insistence on Inclusion through Theater

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