Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration

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Clandestine Border Crossings
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Economic Structural Conditions
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Ethnic Economies
ethnographic fieldwork methods
Female Temporary Migration
gender and migration
human
Human Smuggling
Human Smuggling Networks
Illegal Travel
Independent Financial Resources
irregular labour markets
Low Skilled Service Sector
male migrant risk behaviour
Material Considerations
Migrant Testimonies
Migration Brokerage
Pakistani diaspora Europe
Pakistani Labour Migrants
psychoanalytic social theory
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Restrictive Economy
Rubber Production Plants
Silk Weaving Industry
smuggling
Structural Incorporation
transnational migration studies
Ubaye Valley
UK Friend
UK Passport
West Germany
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138260924
  • Weight: 430g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Nov 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration makes use of extensive new empirical material to explore the phenomena of migration, human smuggling and illegal work, in order to develop a compelling account of international migration, linking it with irrational, risky economic behaviour and male sexual desire. Interviews conducted with successive waves of Pakistani immigrants in the UK and Italy, together with ethnographic fieldwork amongst local journalists, immigration officials and smugglers in Pakistan, serve as the basis for an interdisciplinary comparative analysis of illegal migration across time and space. 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. As such, this book will appeal to those with research interests in economics, social theory, migration, gender and sexuality, and race and ethnicity.
Ali Nobil Ahmad is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

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