Leftover Men and Masculine Grievance: Making Sense of Rural Migrant Men’s Emotional Hardships

Sun, W

Leftover Men and Masculine Grievance: Making Sense of Rural Migrant Men’s Emotional Hardships

Sun, W

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Publisher:: Brill
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: NAN NÜ, 2021, 23, (1), pp. 137-162
Issue Date:: 2021-08-16

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dc.contributor.author	Sun, W https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8687-3739
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-30T06:49:50Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-30T06:49:50Z
dc.date.issued	2021-08-16
dc.identifier.citation	NAN NÜ, 2021, 23, (1), pp. 137-162
dc.identifier.issn	1387-6805
dc.identifier.issn	1568-5268
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dc.description.abstract	<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The social problem of “leftover men” among the most marginalized members of China’s rural migrant population has become widely known, but how these rural migrants themselves talk about and make sense of their failures to secure a marriage partner is relatively less understood. Answering this question may also shed light on how socioeconomic marginalization makes an impact on rural migrant men’s masculine identity. This paper is a longitudinal study of a cohort of unmarried rural migrant men born in the 1980s. This study shows that the emotional experience of cohort members is marked by a mixture of persistent feelings of loneliness, bitterness, and dissatisfaction with the status quo of their lives, and a quiet yearning for the possibility – however remote – of “finding someone” in the future. The paper also points to “masculine grievance” as a useful concept for understanding how unmarried migrant men rationalize their emotional hardships.</jats:p>
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Brill
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150103544
dc.relation.ispartof	NAN NÜ
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1163/15685268-02310015
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dc.subject	1699 Other Studies in Human Society, 2002 Cultural Studies, 2103 Historical Studies
dc.title	Leftover Men and Masculine Grievance: Making Sense of Rural Migrant Men’s Emotional Hardships
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Abstract The social problem of “leftover men” among the most marginalized members of China’s rural migrant population has become widely known, but how these rural migrants themselves talk about and make sense of their failures to secure a marriage partner is relatively less understood. Answering this question may also shed light on how socioeconomic marginalization makes an impact on rural migrant men’s masculine identity. This paper is a longitudinal study of a cohort of unmarried rural migrant men born in the 1980s. This study shows that the emotional experience of cohort members is marked by a mixture of persistent feelings of loneliness, bitterness, and dissatisfaction with the status quo of their lives, and a quiet yearning for the possibility – however remote – of “finding someone” in the future. The paper also points to “masculine grievance” as a useful concept for understanding how unmarried migrant men rationalize their emotional hardships.

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