Hybrid Book Launch – Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean: Refugee Men on the Margins of Europe
Tuesday 10 March 2026, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm GMT, online and London, UK
This event marks the launch of Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean, a new book examining forced migrant men’s vulnerabilities along the Central Mediterranean Route (CMR), which connects sub-Saharan Africa to Sicily via Libya.
Drawing on ethnographic research and life-history interviews with sub-Saharan African asylum seekers and international protection holders in Sicily, the book expands our understanding of the violence-migration nexus by exploring the role of intersectional power hierarchies in shaping forced migrant men’s experiences of suffering and vulnerability along one of the deadliest migration routes in the world. Participants’ narratives of gendered embodiment within the trans-Mediterranean illegality industry illuminate a continuum of violence produced by their marginalised positions within locally salient hierarchies of masculinities. Situated within the racialised landscape of the so-called Mediterranean migration “crisis,” the performance of “competent” manhood emerges as a crucial narrative site through which forced migrant men contest prolonged marginalisation and reclaim subjectivity. Overall, the book frames the relationship between forced migration, masculinities, and vulnerabilities as a critical lens for revealing participants’ neglected social welfare needs and demands in postcolonial Europe. Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean appeals to those with research interests in migration governance, gender, sexuality, postcoloniality, race, ethnicity, European studies, and humanitarianism.
Find more information and book your free place here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/events/book-launch-forced-migration-masculinities-and-vulnerabilities-in-the-mediterranean-1
This event will be held online and at MAR 1.08, Marshall Building, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, UK.