Men, Masculinities and Transnational Migration in the Canadian Context: A Scoping Review

Abstract

Our paper examines how scholarly research on transnational migration has addressed gender identities, focusing specifically on the construction of masculinities among transnational migrant men in Canada. While research on transnational female migrants acknowledges their heterogeneous experiences of gender, research on transnational male migrants often presumes that their experiences of gender are largely homogenous. To fill this gap in the literature, our paper presents a scoping review of peer-reviewed research that explores how transnational migration both unmakes and remakes migrant men’s gender identities in the Canadian context. Our study concludes that there is a need for more scholarship relating to transnational migrant men in Canada, particularly that which examines how masculinities are produced by and productive of changing social locations, cultural positionalities, patterns of inequality, and hierarchies of power and privilege.