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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 are routinely thwarted. This book explores how men who migrate to Nairobi from Western Kenya navigate this tension that is generated by the contrast between their view of Pipeline as a launching pad for their personal and professional careers and the fact that they face constant economic, romantic, and personal backlashes. Drawing on over two years of fieldwork, the book reveals that many male migrants design their future on trajectories of personal and economic growth but have to adjust or indefinitely postpone their plans once they arrive in Kenya's capital. Under the pressure to succeed from romantic partners, spouses, rural kin, and children, they create and participate in homosocial spaces where a sense of brotherhood emerges and their experience of pressure is attenuated. Alongside a deep ethnographic exploration of how male migrants model their financial, physical, and mental well-being in three different masculine spaces - an ethnically homogenous investment group, an interethnic gym, and the semi-digital sphere of self-help books, workshops, and motivational trainings on man- and fatherhood - this book brings a new perspective to our understanding of urban African life and the nature of masculinity. This title is available under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Open Access Fund and the German Research Foundation.

Immigrants --- Masculinity --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Psychology. --- African Gender Studies. --- African Masculinity. --- African Migration. --- African Society. --- Gender Roles in Africa. --- Gender Roles in East Africa. --- Male Migrants in Nairobi. --- Migrants in East Africa.

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Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. They show how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as lovers, husbands, fathers, and sons. They also reveal how migrant men make masculine compromises: they strive to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family by making concessions on marital power and domestic division of labor, and by redefining filial piety and fatherhood. The stories of these migrant men and their families reveal another side to China's sweeping economic reform, modernization, and grand social transformations.

Migration, Internal --- Sex role --- Men --- Urban-rural migration --- Rural-urban migration --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Cities and towns, Movement from --- City-country migration --- Counterurbanization --- Migration, Urban-rural --- Urban exodus --- Rural-urban relations --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Country-city migration --- Migration, Rural-urban --- Rural exodus --- Urbanization --- Family relationships --- China --- Social conditions --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- chinese economic reform. --- chinese family. --- chinese patriarchy. --- domestic division of labor china. --- economic modernization china. --- family roles china. --- fatherhood china. --- filial piety china. --- gender roles china. --- male migrants china. --- male sexuality. --- marital power china. --- masculinity among chinese migrants. --- masculinity in china. --- migrant men in china. --- rural to urban migration in china. --- social transformation china. --- south china migrants. --- south china migration. --- urban migration.