Dwelling, Distance, Detachment: Messy Migrant Lives

Dr. Martin F. Manalansan IV\u27s lecture examines how distancing and detachment are not new and they are not indicative of an exceptional moment of crisis such as the ongoing pandemic. Rather these affects are persistent and enduring atmospheric conditions among marginalized peoples such as undocumented immigrants. This is especially true particularly in migrant domiciles or places of residence based on journalistic and migration studies accounts. These so-called impossible, enmeshed, and chaotic dwelling situations can be productively unraveled through a framework of queer as mess. In other words, the talk offers a meditation on the queer potentials of this approach towards a critical understanding the so-called messy lives of undocumented migrants

Introduction: New Filipino American Scholarship on the Marcos Era

Introduction: New Filipino American Scholarship on the Marcos Er

Introduction to the special issue: Men in a woman's job: Male domestic workers, international migration and the globalization of care

Very little scholarship exists, which investigates male domestic workers. Yet they constitute a highly interesting vantage point from which to analyze the gendered and racialized division of labor as well as the social constructions of masculinity in both contemporary societies and in the past. In several countries nowadays a large number of domestic workers are migrants. By focusing on men employed as domestic workers in different societies, in both the global North and the global South (Italy, France, United Kingdom, India, Ivory Coast, and Congo), the articles presented in this special issue investigate the gendered dimensions of globalization and international migration, while avoiding the essentialist association of ‘‘gender’’ with ‘‘women.’’ They cover a wide range of disciplines (sociology, anthropology, and history) and methodologies (both qualitative and quantitative). Despite this variety of themes and approaches, all identify domestic service as a site where ‘‘hegemonic’’ and ‘‘subaltern’’ masculinities are produced and negotiated at the interplay of multiple social relations. Therefore, they contribute to filling a gap in the recent scholarship about migrant domestic and care labor. Investigating male domestic workers’ practices and the social construction of masculinity within domestic service from the late nineteenth century to the current day, this special issue illustrates not only geographical but also historical variations