Experiences of Masculinities in a Group of Iranian Men Who Have Immigrated to Canada
| dc.contributor.advisor | Morrison, Todd | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Morrison, Melanie | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Loewen Walker, Rachel | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | FitzGerald, Maggie | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Balslev, Sivan | |
| dc.creator | Mirzaei, Yaser | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-24T14:58:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-24T14:58:52Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2024 | |
| dc.date.created | 2024-12 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-02-24 | |
| dc.date.submitted | December 2024 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2025-02-24T14:58:52Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Living in a new sociocultural context, due to immigration, is said to affect the masculinities of men who reside in diasporic places. Iranian men’s masculinities in a diasporic context can be influenced by the new context’s discourses of gender and sexuality. Although the number of Iranian men living in Canada has been increasing, research on diasporic Iranian men within a Canadian context is scant. In my doctoral research, I employed collective memory work to grasp the ways in which contemporary Iranian men’s masculinities are challenged in a diasporic place — namely, Saskatoon, Canada. To do so, I scrutinized memory-scenes written by six Iranian men who had immigrated to Canada between 2014 and 2022. Reflexive thematic analysis of the six written memories resulted in observations that centered around three themes. The first theme, Contextual Masculine Precarity, was inductively extracted from a group of observations that referred to the coresearchers’ feelings of insecurity, uncertainty, shame, loss of socioeconomic status, loss of power, loss of confidence, and heightened vigilance in social settings. Men and Marriage, the second theme, was derived from a cluster of observations that revolved around the organizing concept of marital lives in the new context. Finally, the third theme, Masculine Binary Phenomenology, was extracted from observations, such as girl/boy pairings, that orbited around the coresearchers’ binary worldviews. My findings concerning Iranian men’s experiences of their masculinities in a diasporic context can contribute to existing literature on immigrant masculinities, especially diasporic Iranian masculinities. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10388/16617 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Masculinities | |
| dc.subject | Collective Memory Work | |
| dc.title | Experiences of Masculinities in a Group of Iranian Men Who Have Immigrated to Canada | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.department | Psychology | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Psychology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |