Masculinities and Diaspora: class, racializations and feminization of the Other/Masculinidades e Diaspora: classe, racializacoes e feminizacao do Outro

Drawing on a qualitative research project on immigrant men in Portugal, we aim at disentangling the ways in which migrant identities are constructed in a gendered manner, with differences pertaining to the constitution of specific diasporic communities (Brazilians, Cape Verdeans and Mozambicans), ha...

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Veröffentlicht in:Em pauta (Rio de Janeiro) 2016-12, Vol.14 (38), p.19
Hauptverfasser: Aboim, Sofia, Vasconcelos, Pedro
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Zusammenfassung:Drawing on a qualitative research project on immigrant men in Portugal, we aim at disentangling the ways in which migrant identities are constructed in a gendered manner, with differences pertaining to the constitution of specific diasporic communities (Brazilians, Cape Verdeans and Mozambicans), hailing from diverse colonial and post-colonial histories. For mmigrant men, the experience of otherness, even if permeated by cultural entanglements, hibridity and social inclusion, is marked, in most cases, by subalternity. The ways of dealing with discrimination lead to the construction of migrant identities, along national lines of origin, in a highly gendered form, namely in terms of masculinities. At the same time that migrant men aspire to power in many-sided ways (namely by reinventing multiple forms of male bodily ans sexual performativity), they also tend to shut themselves to inclusion in the dominant Portuguese gender order, frequently being, unwittingly, complicit with their own fetichization as Other.Key Words: Masculinity; hegemony; subordination; otherness; migrations.A partir de uma analise qualitativa sintetica sobre homens imigrantes em Portugal, procura-se destrincar as maneiras como as identidades migrantes sao construidas de forma gendrificada, com diferencas relativas a constituicao de comunidades diasporicas especificas (Brasileiros, Cabo-verdianos e Mocambicanos), com origem em diferentes historias coloniais e pos-coloniais. Para os homens migrantes, a experiencia da alteridade, ainda que permeada por emaranhamentos culturais, hibridismo e inclusao social, e marcada, na maioria dos casos, pela subalternidade. As maneiras de lidar com a discriminacao levam a construcao de identidades migrantes, segundo origens nacionais, de forma altamente gendrificada, nomeadamente em termos de masculinidades. Ao mesmo tempo que os homens migrantes aspiram ao poder de formas variadas (nomeadamente pela reinvencao de multiplas formas de performatividade corporal e sexual masculina), tendem tambem a afastar-se da inclusao na ordem de genero dominante em Portugal, sendo frequentemente cumplices involuntarios da sua propria fetichizacao enquanto Outro.Palavras-Chave: Masculinidade; hegemonia; subordinacao; alteridade, migracoes.
ISSN:2238-3786
DOI:10.12957/rep.2016.27860