Buch(elektronisch)2020

Masculinities and displacement in the Middle East: Syrian refugees in Egypt

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"Following the outbreak of the Syrian uprising in 2011, many Syrians fled to Egypt. This ethnographic study traces Syrian men's struggles in Cairo: their experiences in the Egyptian labour market and efforts to avoid unemployment; their ambitions to prove their 'groomability' in front of potential in-laws in order to get married; and their discontent with being assigned the label 'refugee'. The book reveals the strategies these men use to maintain their identity as the 'respectable Syrian middle-class man' - including engaging in processes of 'Othering' and the creation of hierarchies - and Magdalena Suerbaum explains why this proved so much more difficult for them after Morsi was toppled in 2013. Based on in-depth interviews, conversations and long-term participant observations, Suerbaum identifies Syrian men's emotional struggles as they undergo the experience of forced displacement and she highlights the adaptability and ultimate elasticity of constructed masculinities. The Syrians interviewed share their memories and their understandings of sectarianism and growing up in Syria, their interactions with the Egyptian and Syrian states, and their experiences during the Syrian uprising. The book takes an intersectional approach with close attention to the 'refugee' as a classed and gendered person."--

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Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian Refugees in Egypt

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Suerbaum, Magdalena

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Studying masculinities, middle-classness and relations to the state during forced displacement -- Chapter 1 Being a man vis-à-vis militarization, war and the uprising -- Chapter 2 Becoming and 'un-becoming' refugees -- Chapter 3 Claiming successful middle-class masculinity through work -- Chapter 4 Loss of status and 'groom-ability': Making sense of changes in marriage negotiations -- Chapter 5 Establishing a living among several 'others' in Egypt -- Chapter 6 Masculinities, interaction with the state and the migration of fear -- Conclusion: On masculinities, forced displacement, middle-classness and relations with the nation state -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.