Doing Masculinity: The “Look” of Unaccompanied Male Migrant Teenagers from the Maghreb

The aim of this article is to engage with unaccompanied migrant Maghrebi boys’ styles of physical self-presentation, “looks,” and hairstyles as a source of knowledge on the construction of masculinities. In order to observe such bodily expressive practices, we used general ethnographic methodology a...

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Autores: Mendoza Pérez, Karmele, Morgade Salgado, Marta
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:unaccompanied foreign minors
immigration
bodies
aesthetic
identity
ethnography
Psicología
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Doing Masculinity: The “Look” of Unaccompanied Male Migrant Teenagers from the Maghreb
title Doing Masculinity: The “Look” of Unaccompanied Male Migrant Teenagers from the Maghreb
spellingShingle Doing Masculinity: The “Look” of Unaccompanied Male Migrant Teenagers from the Maghreb
Mendoza Pérez, Karmele
unaccompanied foreign minors
immigration
bodies
aesthetic
identity
ethnography
Psicología
title_short Doing Masculinity: The “Look” of Unaccompanied Male Migrant Teenagers from the Maghreb
title_full Doing Masculinity: The “Look” of Unaccompanied Male Migrant Teenagers from the Maghreb
title_fullStr Doing Masculinity: The “Look” of Unaccompanied Male Migrant Teenagers from the Maghreb
title_full_unstemmed Doing Masculinity: The “Look” of Unaccompanied Male Migrant Teenagers from the Maghreb
title_sort Doing Masculinity: The “Look” of Unaccompanied Male Migrant Teenagers from the Maghreb
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Mendoza Pérez, Karmele
Morgade Salgado, Marta
author Mendoza Pérez, Karmele
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Morgade Salgado, Marta
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Facultad de Psicología
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv unaccompanied foreign minors
immigration
bodies
aesthetic
identity
ethnography
Psicología
topic unaccompanied foreign minors
immigration
bodies
aesthetic
identity
ethnography
Psicología
description The aim of this article is to engage with unaccompanied migrant Maghrebi boys’ styles of physical self-presentation, “looks,” and hairstyles as a source of knowledge on the construction of masculinities. In order to observe such bodily expressive practices, we used general ethnographic methodology and, in particular, a workshop built around different artistic techniques. Since masculinity is inextricably defined in relation to specific agents and contexts, insights into unaccompanied migrant teenagers’ enactments of masculinity are dependent on (1) the collective imagination lying behind such “looks” and bodily images, (2) the discomfort and tensions created in the institutional communities in which these minors live—especially among social workers, and (3) the dialogue and relationships that emerge between the aesthetic and bodily expressions of these young migrants’ own culture and those of the other cultural groups that coexist, in our case, in a European city
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