'A Woman to Warm My Heart': Low-Wage Mainland Chinese Migrant Men, Thrift and Desires for Intimacy in Singapore. (4th May 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'A Woman to Warm My Heart': Low-Wage Mainland Chinese Migrant Men, Thrift and Desires for Intimacy in Singapore. (4th May 2019)
- Main Title:
- 'A Woman to Warm My Heart': Low-Wage Mainland Chinese Migrant Men, Thrift and Desires for Intimacy in Singapore
- Authors:
- Ang, Sylvia
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: While work on gender and migration has grown significantly, it has mostly addressed the experiences of female migrants; the experiences of male migrants are still understudied. Even less attention has been paid to male migrants and their heterosexuality. This paper is interested in Chinese masculinities, which in the migration literature have been discussed largely in relation to migration to the West. Discussions of low-wage Chinese masculinities have similarly been limited, with a focus on rural-urban migration within China. Empirically, this paper aims to contribute by investigating Chinese masculinities outside of China but in a non-Western setting. The arrival of low-wage migrants from China into Singapore's majority-'Chinese' population not only enables an investigation of the hierarchies of Chinese masculinities but also unsettles the 'Chinese' ethnic category. I consider low-wage mainland Chinese migrant men's raced, gendered and classed subjectivities and show that low-wage mainland Chinese migrant men in Singapore encounter dilemmas in their desires to seek intimacies beyond paid sex. I show that their dilemmas are informed by the discourse of respectable manhood and thrift, a discourse that is extended through a juxtaposition against Singaporean men.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of intercultural studies. Volume 40:issue 3(2019)
- Journal:
- Journal of intercultural studies
- Issue:
- Volume 40:issue 3(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 40, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0040-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 287
- Page End:
- 301
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05-04
- Subjects:
- Migration -- labour migration -- mobility -- gender -- masculinity -- Chinese masculinity -- heterosexuality -- intimacy -- thrift -- co-Ethnicity -- Singapore
Cross-cultural studies -- Periodicals
Culture -- Periodicals
Civilization, Modern -- Periodicals
Internationalism -- Periodicals
Globalization -- Periodicals
306 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjis20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/07256868.2019.1598953 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0725-6868
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