The Nexus of Migration and Masculinity in the Asian Context, 15-16 July 2010, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
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Call for Papers
The Nexus of Migration and Masculinity in the Asian Context
Date: 15 - 16 July 2010
Venue: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Website: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=1014
-- The interface between gender and migration scholarship has been problematic for many years, especially in the last half of the twentieth century. A number of scholars have agreed that from the 1950s to the 1970s, scholarship on migration worldwide focused almost exclusively on men as the "birds of passage," while women, children, and the elderly were seen as following in their paths. This earlier research assumed that males were more inclined and able to take risks and to journey far away in search of better job opportunities, whereas women, if they migrated at all, were depicted as emotional caretakers who accompanied men to ensure family and community stability. In the 1970s and 1980s, migration research redressed the male bias, but the pendulum shifted so far in the opposite direction that the male migrant disappeared almost to the same degree that the female migrant had previously been absent in prior decades. It is evident that many scholars currently assert that they study gender and migration, yet only focus on women; and while there was a time when the exclusive-male focus needed correction, that time has now passed.
-- Paper proposals should be submitted by 19 February 2010 using the Paper Proposal Form and should include a 500-word abstract as well as a short biography. The Paper Proposal form is available at http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/showfile.asp?eventfileid=516
-- Please submit and address all applications to Miss Alyson Rozells (alysonrozells@nus.edu.sg) of the Asia Research Institute, NUS. Successful applicants will be notified by the beginning of March 2010. Full papers (6000-7000 words) are due three weeks before the conference date of July 15-16, 2010. Selected papers will eventually be considered in an edited volume with a university press.
