NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies (Web); Guest Editors: Katarzyna Wojnicka (Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Paula Pustulka (SWPS Univ., Warsaw, Poland)

Proposals by: 20.12.2016

The Guest Editors warmly welcome scholarly contributions from researchers working on the issues pertaining to the international migration and mobilities, critical men and and masculinities studies. This special issue aims at collecting and broadening the scholarly knowledge on the issues concentrated on the presence of male migrants in the receiving societies.

Although gender perspectives have guided migration research for several decades, the use of a ‘gender’ lens appears to primarily result in the investigations focused on women. A compensatory trend of recognizing the processes of feminization and family reunification migration patterns has simultaneously led to an omission of the mobile men and masculinities in the recent scholarly investigations (Charsley and Wray 2015). This situation has changed slightly since the beginning of the 21st century, when a handful of researchers started conducting analyses of the specificity of the migrant men’s experiences and their positioning in the sending and receiving country societies. Nevertheless, to this day on the coverage predominantly tackles a small number of issues, such as the role of migrant men in the labour market or the negative consequences of mobility for men. Criminality and sexism were particularly pinpointed … read more (Web).