Masculinidades e Diáspora: classe, racializações e feminização do Outro

Drawing on a qualitative research project on immigrant men in Portugal, we aim at disentangling the ways in which migrant identities are constructed in a gendered manner, with differences pertaining to the constitution of specific diasporic communities (Brazilians, Cape Verdeans and Mozambicans), hailing from diverse colonial and post-colonial histories. For mmigrant men, the experience of otherness, even if permeated by cultural entanglements, hibridity and social inclusion, is marked, in most cases, by subalternity. The ways of dealing with discrimination lead to the construction of migrant identities, along national lines of origin, in a highly gendered form, namely in terms of masculinities. At the same time that migrant men aspire to power in many-sided ways (namely by reinventing multiple forms of male bodily ans sexual performativity), they also tend to shut themselves to inclusion in the dominant Portuguese gender order, frequently being, unwittingly, complicit with their own fetichization as Other.