A Thing Apart

Controlling Male Family Migration to the United Kingdom

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ID2388156
AuthorsHelena Wray (School of Law, Middlesex University, London, UK, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume18
Issue4
Pages424-447
Publication date2015-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMen and Masculinities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1097-184X • E-ISSN: 1552-6828
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1097184x15575108
OpenAlexW2193857957
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited19

Although gender offers valuable perspectives for understanding migration law, masculinity has received little attention. In family migration, men are generally regarded as economic agents and family as marginal to their lives, a view that is difficult to dislodge because it serves the purposes of governments anxious to reduce unwanted immigration. In British immigration law, measures have often explicitly or implicitly relied on such gender-based assumptions. Recently, lawyers have utilized the gap between official and unofficial standards by promoting test cases involving either a woman or a vulnerable man but where the principles established will benefit all migrants. Gains may be short-lived however as new ways emerge of making distinctions. These arguments are demonstrated in this article through examination of British immigration control and judicial decisions. The article finds that, in this arena, new understandings of masculinity and fatherhood have yet to make much impact

Family law · Immigration · Masculinity · Political science · Sociology · Gender and Women's Rights · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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