Masculinities of Tajik Labor Migrants: Transformations of Gender Roles and Practices in a Transnational Migration Context

This book explores masculinities of Tajik men and offers insights on how migrant and non—migrant men maintain their gender identity and adjust their gender practices in the context of transnational labor migration from Tajikistan to Russia. Being in the state of transnational in—betweenness, Tajik non/migrant men and often their spouses need to adapt to gender norms of both Russian and Tajik gender orders despite the orders' very different and at times contradicting gender requirements. The...