Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience

Mike Donaldson · Raymond Hibbins · Richard Howson · Bob Pease

Sep 2009 · Routledge

About this ebook

This edited volume contributes an important collection of chapters to the growing theoretical and empirical work being undertaken at the international level on men and migration. The chapters presented here focus on what we might call ‘migratory masculinities': the experiences men have of masculinity upon immigration into another national, ethnic, and cultural context. How do these men (re)construct their conceptions of masculinity? Where are the points of tension, ambivalence or assimilation in this process? Featuring interviews and data drawn from migrants working and living in Australia, this book explores how the gender identity of men from non-English-speaking backgrounds is influenced by the experiences of migration and settlement in an English-speaking culture, across various cultural spheres such as work, leisure, family life and religion.

About the author

Richard Howson is Convenor of Sociology at the University of Wollongong. He is currently coordinator of the Hegemony Research Group in the Faculty of Arts. His publications include Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity (Routledge: London, 2006), Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion (Routledge: New York, 2008) and Sociology of Postmarxism (Routledge: New York, 2009).

Bob Pease is the Chair of Social Work at Deakin University. He is currently working on an ARC funded project on the impact of migration on the gender identities of men from four culturally-diverse regions of the world.

Raymond Hibbins teaches Cultural Diversity and Leisure and Leisure Policy Processes in the Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Mike Donaldson is a sociologist at the University of Wollongong specialising in class and its applications to gender and in particular masculine culture and practice. He is currently Secretary of the International Gramsci Society, Asia-Pacific.