Masculinity, Sexuality, and Illegal Migration: Human Smuggling from Pakistan to Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138260924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 230 str.

Ali Nobil Ahmad

Opis

Challenging the received idea that labour migration is driven purely by rational economic forces, Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration draws upon psychoanalytic social theory to examine the roles of masculinity and irrationality in the decision to migrate, thus stimulating a more complex debate about migration's causes and consequences. The arguments it makes raise wider questions about the folly of thinking about economic concerns in isolation from other aspects of human experience.

Recenzje

'Drawing on extensive ethnography and literature on psychology, desire, sexuality and masculinity, this book sheds new light on the migrant experience. Ahmad builds a brilliantly subversive critique of fashionable models of migration, debunking neoliberal optimism, transnationalism and social capitalism. A refreshingly original analysis of labour migration into the underworld of the European economy.' Russell King, Sussex University, UK 'Whatever direction migration studies take, the way scholars and policy makers conceive of the causes and consequences of male migration will have to include considerations about desire and sexuality. Identifying the link between sexuality, labour process and the persistence of patriarchal social relations, which this study does so brilliantly, is key to accounting for contemporary global migrations.' Rutvica Andrijasevic, University of Leicester, UK 'Ahmad takes seriously what has been called ’migration culture’, setting out a new and original theoretical model that sheds light on why so many thousands of young men from Pakistani Punjab have set out in the last decades for an increasingly perilous journey across central Asia to the West... His data are intimate and sustained, which is itself a considerable achievement given the level of familiarity needed for an illegal migrant to speak trustingly about his situation... it is very strong on human smuggling, travel, transit and the new migrant economies in Europe, and offers richer analysis of any of these areas than any other work I can think of.' Journal of Punjab Studies 'The writing is both articulate and engaging... In many ways the author helps to fill a gap in the migration literature by providing a more complete picture of migration practices. In summation, this is a must read for any scholar interested in a novel approach to the study of migration and the application of psychoanalytic theory to the investigation of migration practices. Further, the commentary on w

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Preface Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration; Part I Introduction; Part II Drives; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 1 Gender, the Household and Migrant Masculinity; Chapter 2 Sexuality and Migration; Chapter 102 Conclusion to Part II; Part III Death; Chapter 103 Introduction to Part III; Chapter 3 Fortress Europe, Afro-Eurasia; Chapter 4 Eroticism, History and Base Materiality; Chapter 104 Conclusion to Part III; Part IV Loss; Chapter 105 Introduction to Part IV; Chapter 5 Myths and Realities of Return and Arrival; Chapter 6 Time, Space and Illegality in the New Migrant Economy; Chapter 106 Conclusion to Part IV; Chapter 107 Conclusion Appendices Appendix I The old school (London) Appendix II Freshies (London) Appendix III The Italians Appendix IV Countries transited/previously settled by Pakistanis in Italy;

O autorze

Ali Nobil Ahmad is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan