Palillo, Marco ORCID: 0000-0001-8599-9703 (2023) “Now I Must Go”. Uncovering the relationship between masculinity and structural vulnerability in young African men's stories of forced migration. International Migration Review (IMR). pp. 1-25. ISSN 0197-9183 (Print), 1747-7379 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231185124)

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Abstract

Drawing on personal narratives collected from Sub-Saharan African international protection holders and seekers in Sicily, this article aims to advance understanding of the gender-specific processes prompting young men to migrate toward Europe. Focusing on the diverse experiences of (or threat of) violence that prompted participants to migrate, I argue that masculinity can be seen as a mediating factor between the individual and structural levels, producing a set of structural vulnerabilities to male-on-male violence both in the public sphere and in private spaces like the familial context. Here, vulnerability should be understood as positionality, indicating participants’ placement within context-specific masculine hierarchies along the lines of age, migration status, and race. Accordingly, this article interprets the Central Mediterranean migration route as a highly masculinized migration arena, where the social reproduction of vulnerable male mobilities stemming from the hierarchical organization of masculinities is located on a continuum across different migration phases.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	masculinity; vulnerability; forced migration
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
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Last Modified:	19 Sep 2024 17:07
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48118

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