'Nobody comes to Baba for advice': negotiating ageing masculinities in the Somali diaspora.
Based on a case-study of Somalis in Norway, this paper examines older male refugees' seek for recognition in transnational social fields. Drawing on Honneth's theory of intersubjective identity formation and Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity, it explores the ways in which they renegotiate r...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 46; no. 7; pp. 1442 - 1460 |
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2020
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