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In search of legal stability: predicaments of asylum-seeking mothers in Berlin
Get PDFSuerbaum M. In search of legal stability: predicaments of asylum-seeking mothers in Berlin. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2023;46(2):254-274
Masculinities and displacement in the Middle East: Syrian refugees in Egypt
No full textFollowing the outbreak of the Syrian uprising in 2011, many Syrians fled to Egypt. This ethnographic study traces Syrian men's struggles in Cairo: their experiences in the Egyptian labour market and efforts to avoid unemployment; their ambitions to prove their 'groomability' in front of potential in-laws in order to get married; and their discontent with being assigned the label 'refugee'. The book reveals the strategies these men use to maintain their identity as the 'respectable Syrian middle-class man' - including engaging in processes of 'Othering' and the creation of hierarchies – and Magdalena Suerbaum explains why this proved so much more difficult for them after Morsi was toppled in 2013. Based on in-depth interviews, conversations and long-term participant observations, Suerbaum identifies Syrian men's emotional struggles as they undergo the experience of forced displacement and she highlights the adaptability and ultimate elasticity of constructed masculinities. The Syrians interviewed share their memories and their understandings of sectarianism and growing up in Syria, their interactions with the Egyptian and Syrian states, and their experiences during the Syrian uprising. The book takes an intersectional approach with close attention to the 'refugee' as a classed and gendered person.Acknowledgements Introduction: Studying masculinities, middle-classness, and relations to the state during forced displacement 1.Being a man vis-à-vis militarisation, war, and the uprising 2.Becoming and 'un-becoming' refugees 3.Claiming successful middle-class masculinity through work 4.Loss of status and 'groom-ability': Making sense of changes in marriage negotiations 5.Establishing a living among several 'others' in Egypt 6.Masculinities, interaction with the state and the migration of fear Conclusion: On Masculinities, forced displacement, middle-classness and relations with the nation state Bibliograph
Embodying legal precarity: Living with ongoing short‐term protection in Germany
Get PDFSuerbaum M. Embodying legal precarity: Living with ongoing short‐term protection in Germany. International Migration. 2023;61(3): 25-38.Immigration regimes pay particular attention to the migrant’s body in the process of legal and bureaucratic inscription. Legal precarity, defined by the repeated reception of short-term protection from deportation, is an existential and deeply embodied experience. The analysis of Schwangerschaftsduldung (temporary suspension of deportation based on pregnancy) and protection for unaccompanied minors, two legal situations in Germany, can shed light on how the migrant’s body receives centre stage in the process of legal status determination and shows how the long journey to relative legal stability deeply affects the body. The two legal categories have in common a temporal limitation and an association with bodily transformations. By centring on the legal trajectories of three migrants, this article shows how the body is taken as the marker of vulnerability and (un)deservingness and becomes the bearer of legal precarity
Of negotiations, strategies and ethical projects: Inheriting memories of violence among Syrian mothers in displacement
No full textSuerbaum M. Of negotiations, strategies and ethical projects: Inheriting memories of violence among Syrian mothers in displacement. Antropologia. 2024;11(1):65-83
Migrations through law, Bureaucracy and Kin: navigating citizenship in relations
No full textSuerbaum M, Richter-Devroe S. Migrations through law, Bureaucracy and Kin: navigating citizenship in relations. Citizenship Studies. 2022;26(6):727-745
Kinship generations in the context of succession and motherhood
No full textHölzle ER, Suerbaum M. Kinship generations in the context of succession and motherhood. Lova Journal of Feminist Anthropology & Gender Studies. 2023;44:101-123
Navigating citizenship and motherhood in and beyond Berlin
No full textSuerbaum M. Navigating citizenship and motherhood in and beyond Berlin. Citizenship Studies. 2022;26(6):834-851.This article centres on the predicaments of an East African migrant woman who resided in an Eastern EU country and is the mother of a child holding citizenship in the same EU country. Seeking asylum in Germany after having fled an abusive marriage, she found out that her residency in an EU country would most likely invalidate her asylum claim. Being classified as an EU migrant and withdrawing her asylum application, however, complicated her and her daughter’s access to welfare provision. Tracing this woman’s struggles in Germany and her onward migration trajectory to a country in the Arab world, offers a perspective on the consequences of legal complexity, challenging bureaucratic encounters, and missing support structures for a mother’s relationship with her daughter. Her negotiations of dominant parenting ideologies, attempts to create belonging, and striving to cope with racialization in the process of migration to and attempting to settle in Germany can be read as navigations of citizenship
Constructions of Masculinities, Class and Refugee Status Among Syrian Refugee Men in Egypt
No full textSuerbaum M. Constructions of Masculinities, Class and Refugee Status Among Syrian Refugee Men in Egypt. In: Mora C, Piper N, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan ; 2021: 387-403
Mothering practices in times of legal precarity: activism, care, and resistance in displacement
No full textSuerbaum M, Lijnders L. Mothering practices in times of legal precarity: activism, care, and resistance in displacement. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2023;46(2):191-212.This introduction studies the experiences of racialized migrant women by focusing on three analytical dimensions: mothering, including care work and reproduction; legal precarity caused by the encounter with migration and border regimes; and gendered racialization. It argues that by applying the lens of motherhood to the study of migration and forced displacement, different perspectives and insights emerge on women's decision-making processes and strategies. These perspectives emphasize how the overlap of migration experiences, legal precarity, and gendered racialization within global asylum and border regimes reconfigure women’s relations with their children, kin ties, sense of personhood, intimacies, and belonging. Ultimately, this introduction suggests that the study of the triangular interconnection of motherhood, legal precarity and gendered racialization sheds light on various scales and spheres: from perspectives on emotional and psychological challenges to everyday realities, from the intimate to the public sphere, including both larger structural processes and individualized experiences
The pram, the notebook and the plastic bag: Mothering practices among migrants living in legal precarity in Berlin
No full textSuerbaum M. The pram, the notebook and the plastic bag: Mothering practices among migrants living in legal precarity in Berlin. In: Yi-Neumann F, Lauser A, Fuhse A, Bräunlein PJ, eds. Material Culture and (Forced) Migration. Materializing the transient. London: UCL Press; 2022
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