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Syrian Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan and Turkey

Syrian Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan... This article analyzes the relationship between men’s physical disability and the trajectories of negotiating masculinities in the context of Syrian refugee displacement in Jordan and Turkey. The article draws its analysis from the personal narratives of five displaced Syrian refugee men who sustained injuries during the war in Syria. It explores how Syrian refugee men with disabilities remake their masculine bodies and selves to create a new version of masculinity that responds to the changes in their socioeconomic circumstances and bodies. The article argues that the disabled Syrian refugee men went through multiple and contradictory masculine trajectories that intersect with multiple identities and different types of disability. Disabled Syrian refugee men’s emergent masculine embodiments created a version of masculinity that, although it adhered to the patriarchal family values of connectivity and intimacy, does not in its practice legitimate domination within the family and in the Syrian refugee community. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

Syrian Men’s Disability and Their Masculine Trajectories in the Context of Displacement in Jordan and Turkey

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Abstract

This article analyzes the relationship between men’s physical disability and the trajectories of negotiating masculinities in the context of Syrian refugee displacement in Jordan and Turkey. The article draws its analysis from the personal narratives of five displaced Syrian refugee men who sustained injuries during the war in Syria. It explores how Syrian refugee men with disabilities remake their masculine bodies and selves to create a new version of masculinity that responds to the changes in their socioeconomic circumstances and bodies. The article argues that the disabled Syrian refugee men went through multiple and contradictory masculine trajectories that intersect with multiple identities and different types of disability. Disabled Syrian refugee men’s emergent masculine embodiments created a version of masculinity that, although it adhered to the patriarchal family values of connectivity and intimacy, does not in its practice legitimate domination within the family and in the Syrian refugee community.

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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2021

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  • Inclusive Masculinity in a Fraternal Setting
    Anderson, Eric
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    Barbelet, Veronique
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    Beasley, Christine
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    Bridges, Tristan Pascoe, C. J.
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    Carrigan, Tim Connell, Raewyn W. Lee, John.
  • Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept
    Connell, Raewyn W. Messerschmidt, James.
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    Curtis, Bruce Geagan, Jennifer
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    De Boise, Sam Hearn, Jeff
  • Connell’s Concept of Hegemonic Masculinity: A Critique
    Demetriou, Demetrakis
  • Stories as Lived Experience: Narrative in Forced Migration Research
    Eastmond, Marita
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    Gagen, J. Wendy
  • Decolonizing Middle East Men and Masculinities Scholarship: An Axiomatic Approach
    Hasso, Frances
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    Hearn, Jeff
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  • Is ‘Hegemonic Masculinity’ Hegemonic as Masculinity? Two Israeli Case Studies
    Hirsch, Dafna Kachtan, Dana G.
  • Moral Mobility: Emergent Refugee Masculinities among Young Syrians in Athens
    Ingvars, Ardis Gislason, Ingolfur
  • Introduction
    Inhorn, Marcia Isidoros, Konstantina
  • Embodying Emergent Masculinities: Men Engaging with Reproductive and Sexual Health Technologies in the Middle East and Mexico
    Inhorn, Marcia Wentzell, Emily
  • Inter-Agency Shelter and Wash Assessment Report
  • Negotiating Respectable Masculinity: Gender and Recognition in the Somali Diaspora
    Kleist, Nauja
  • Refugees’ Exclusion at Work and the Intersection with Gender: Insights from the Turkish-Syrian Border
    Knappert, Lena Kornau, Angela Figengula, Meltem
  • Refugee Men as Perpetrators, Allies, or Troublemakers? Emerging Discourses on Men and Masculinities in Humanitarian Aid
    Olivius, Elisabeth
  • Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian ‘Intifada’: A Cultural Politics of Violence
    Peteet, Julie
  • Gender, Disability, and Displacement: Reflections from Research on Syrian Refugees in Jordan
    Rehman, Bushra
  • Masculinities, Bodies, and Emotional Life
    Seidler, Victor
  • The Dilemma of Disabled Masculinity
    Shuttleworth, Russell Wedgwood, Nikki Wilson, Nathan J.
  • The Role of Social Networks in the Movement of Syrian Refugees into Neighbouring Countries
    Sonmez, Zumrut
  • Becoming and ‘Unbecoming’ Refugees: Making Sense of Masculinity and Refugeeness among Syrian Refugee Men in Egypt
    Suerbaum, Magdalena
  • Defining the Other to Masculinize Oneself: Syrian Men’s Negotiation of Masculinity during Displacement in Egypt
    Suerbaum, Magdalena
  • Are Syrian Men Vulnerable Too? Gendering the Syria Refugee Response
    Turner, Lewis
  • Syrian Refugee Men as Objects of Humanitarian Care
    Turner, Lewis
  • Syria Regional Response Plan: Jordan
  • Inter-agency Assessment: Gender-Based Violence and Child Protection among Syrian Refugees in Jordan, with a Focus on Early Marriage
  • Emergent Ordinaries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center: An Ethnography of Extra/Ordinary Encounter
    Wool, Zoë Hamilton