• Migrants and Masculinity w/ Mario Schmidt

  • Oct 3 2024
  • Length: 36 mins
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Migrants and Masculinity w/ Mario Schmidt

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  • In this episode, Christoph Brumann talks to Mario Schmidt about his research that led to his book 'Migrants and masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: the pressure of being a man in an African city'. Among other things, they talk about how many male migrants design their future on trajectories of personal and economic growth but have to adjust or indefinitely postpone their plans once they arrive in Kenya's capital. They also talk about the pressure these men feel to succeed, the pressure that comes from romantic partners, spouses, relatives in the country, and children. Because of this pressure, they create homosocial spaces in which they participate, where a sense of brotherhood arises and their sense of pressure is alleviated. They also describe how male migrants model their financial, physical, and mental well-being in three different masculine spaces - an ethnically homogenous investment group, an interethnic gym, and the semi-digital sphere of self-help books, workshops, and motivational trainings on man- and fatherhood. The book is available for open access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86009
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