Migratory Men

Garth Stahl is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author of Self-Made Men: Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-in-family Males; Working-Class Masculinities in Australian Higher Education; Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success and Identity; and Neoliberalism and Aspiration: Educating White Working-Class Boys.Yang Zhao is a doctoral candidate in anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, Australia. Based on 13 months of fieldwork in Uzbekistan, his doctoral project investigates how young Uzbek men perceive and practise everyday masculinities in relation to family, religion and state. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on Uzbek masculinities, digital ethnography and HIV education.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Contemporary Arab-American masculinities written by women: Intersections of transnationalism, ageing and affect; Chapter 2 Postcolonial migration as an escape from emasculation: The satanic verses and the Indian middle-class quest for masculinity; Chapter 3 Boys to men: Shifting literary representations of racialised migrant boys in Australia; Chapter 4 Degrees of care: Theorising the masculinities of Indian international students in Australian universities; Chapter 5 Breaking the state of exception: Post-coloniality, masculinity and political agency among racialised refugee men in Sicily; Chapter 6 Muslim masculinities under siege? Masculinity, religion and migration in the life stories of Muslim men married outside their religious group in Belgium and Italy; Chapter 7 Entrepreneurs of desperation: Young men and migration in interior Tunisia; Chapter 8 Be your own boss: The role of digital labour platforms in producing migrant masculinity(s); Chapter 9 Globalisation, masculinities and the domestic space: Men employing migrant reproductive workers in Italy; Chapter 10 Protective migrant masculinity: Between marginalisation and privilege; Chapter 11 Migration and mutual articulation with normative masculinity in Zimbabwe; Chapter 12 Postcolonial histories, state containment and securing (dis)locating young masculinities in a transnational urban space; Chapter 13 Masculine anxieties of undocumented South Asian male agricultural workers in Greece: Productive use of bordering regimes and potential emasculation by racial capitalism; Chapter 14 Migration trajectories in Southern Africa: The masculinity fix between Maputo and Johannesburg; Chapter 15 Migratory masculinities and vulnerabilities: Temporality and affect in the lives of irregularised Pakistani men; Chapter 16 ‘I came to Australia with very big hope, big wishes, big goals’: Applying ‘mobility work’ and ‘resettlement work’ to explore the emotional labour and subaltern masculinities of refugee-background men