Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean

Refugee Men on the Margins of Europe
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-60929-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Studies in Migration and Diaspora

Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean explores the role of intersectional power hierarchies and the social reproduction of vulnerability in shaping forced migrant men's embodied realities of suffering along the Central Mediterranean migration route (CMR), which connects Sub-Saharan Africa to Sicily via Libya.

Based on life history interviews and observational research collected from Sub-Saharan international protection-holders and seekers in Sicily, the book expands our understanding of the violence-migration nexus by exploring refugee men’s gendered mobilities. Participants' narratives of gendered embodiment within the trans-Mediterranean illegality industry are used to shed light on the violence continuum produced by their marginalised position within locally salient hierarchies of masculinities across different migration stages. Following the ethnographic encounter between the researcher and participants in the racialised landscape of the Mediterranean migration ‘crisis’, the performance of competent manhood emerges as a crucial narrative site where forced migrant men can contest their protracted experiences of marginalisation and reclaim subjectivity. Overall, the book views the relationships between forced migration, masculinities, and vulnerabilities as a locus which reveals participants' neglected social welfare needs and demands in postcolonial Europe.

Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean appeals to those with research interests in migration, gender, sexuality, postcoloniality, race, ethnicity, European studies and humanitarianism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palillo, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Forced migrant men on the margins of Europe Chapter 1. Forced migrant men as vulnerable bodies Chapter 2. Researching masculinities, vulnerabilities and forced migration during the Mediterranean migration ‘crisis’ Chapter 3. A route to manhood: masculinity, vulnerability, and the inception of forced migration Chapter 4. Lost in between: dangerous adventures and ‘vulnerable’ gendered mobilities in Libya Chapter 5. Men on the run: black masculinities in the Libyan illegality industry Chapter 6. Men, interrupted: The institutionalisation of ‘vulnerability’ in Sicilian refugee centres Chapter 7. A continuum of intersectional vulnerabilities in refugee men’s narratives Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Marco Palillo is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Greenwich, UK. They have a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics (LSE) and have held teaching positions at Sciences Po Paris, LSE and the University of Bradford.