Dr. Reena Kukreja, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queen's

In this talk, I argue that the agrarian crisis in Pakistan and India has created a crisis of masculinity for small and marginal farm-holding men by stripping away their manhood, defined by the 카지노 게임 컬렉션˜breadwinner카지노 게임 컬렉션™ ideal. Migration overseas emerges as a compensatory masculine strategy to reinstate lost manly stature. In recent years, these men have filled a vital labour gap in Greece카지노 게임 컬렉션™s agrarian economy, the revitalization of which is also attributed to the large-scale use of cheap and flexible migrant force. Drawing upon my research in rural Greece, I trace the processes through which the disciplinary mechanisms of migration and labour regimes, contingent on 카지노 게임 컬렉션˜illegality카지노 게임 컬렉션™ of status and exercised through emasculatory spectacles of deportation, succeed in reinforcing abject masculinity within these undocumented male migrants. The fear of deportation and loss of masculine stature works efficiently to enforce labour compliancy from these men카지노 게임 컬렉션™s racialised labouring bodies. I contend that the disciplinary power is also linked to racism, Islamophobia and the Greek ethno-nationalist project as it enforces a self-imposed discipline of invisibility from Greek public spaces by these men. Lastly, I foreground the novel use of a South Asian sport, Kabaddi, an embodiment of the men카지노 게임 컬렉션™s rural cultural identity, as a defiant act of masculine assertion and a highly visible resistance strategy against the disciplinary power of deportability.