Migrant Men: Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience

This edited collection explores how the gender identity of men from non-English-speaking backgrounds is influenced by the experiences of migration and settlement in an English-speaking culture, across various cultural spheres such as work, leisure, family life and religion.

Author: Mike Donaldson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780415994859

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 11

About the Author

Richard Howson is Convenor of Sociology at the University of Wollongong. He is currently coordinator of the Hegemony Research Group in the Faculty of Arts. His publications include Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity (Routledge: London, 2006), Hegemony: Studies in Consensus and Coercion (Routledge: New York, 2008) and Sociology of Postmarxism (Routledge: New York, 2009).

Bob Pease is the Chair of Social Work at Deakin University. He is currently working on an ARC funded project on the impact of migration on the gender identities of men from four culturally-diverse regions of the world.

Raymond Hibbins teaches Cultural Diversity and Leisure and Leisure Policy Processes in the Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Mike Donaldson is a sociologist at the University of Wollongong specialising in class and its applications to gender and in particular masculine culture and practice. He is currently Secretary of the International Gramsci Society, Asia-Pacific.