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Migrants and Masculinity in High-Rise Nairobi: The Pressure of being a Man in an African City

By Mario Schmidt
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By Mario Schmidt
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Examines how young male migrants in urban Nairobi navigate the tension between expectations of success and repetitive failure.

Pipeline is a low-income, high-rise-tenement settlement in Nairobi's marginalized East and one of sub-Saharan Africa's most densely populated estates. An aspirational place where fleeting forms of capitalist consumption reassure migrants of an upward trajectory, it is also a place where their ambitions of long-term economic success and stable romantic relationships a...

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