Recouping masculinity: Understanding the links between macho masculinity and self-exploitation among undocumented South Asian male migrants in Greece

Geoforum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reena Kukreja
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Male

scholarly journals The Use of Intralesional Steroids in a Case of Localized Pemphigus Foliaceus

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Sara Ghoneim ◽  
Martin Zaiac
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Rare Disorder ◽  
Pemphigus Foliaceus ◽  
Old South ◽  
Bullous Diseases ◽  
Asian Male ◽  
Intralesional Steroids

A 37-year-old South-Asian male presented to our clinic with a crusty, verrucous-like, scaly plaque of the left ala of the nose. After ruling out infectious and other epidermal bullous diseases, we finalized a diagnosis of localized pemphigus foliaceus, an exceptionally rare disorder with only 15 cases reported in the literature to date. The hyperkeratotic lesions responded favorably to a 3-week regimen of triamcinolone ointment and a onetime intralesional triamcinolone 2.5 mg/mL injection.

Different pathways for different journeys: ethnicity, identity transition and desistance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Calverley
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Asian Male ◽  
Minority Ethnic

This chapter argues that the processes of adopting viable non-offending identities are as important in the desistance of minority ethnic offenders as they are for offenders who are white. However, differences in structural location and cultural expectations and practices mean that the forms of pro-social identity that are accessible and available vary. The author examines the ways Black and dual heritage and South Asian male desisters invest in available discourses of masculinity which are shaped by ethnicity (Gadd and Farrall, 2004) and how this process of identity re-construction provides a means of transitioning from an offender to a non-offender identity. The author then pinpoints the ways that identity is racialised and reviews the effects this has on desistance and the different strategies employed to deal with challenges imposed by racism.

Elsewhere

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Bilal Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Asian Male ◽  
Political Film

FQ columnist Bilal Qureshi compares two seemingly similar summer movies: Gurinder Chadha's Blinded by the Light and Danny Boyle's Yesterday, both of which feature music-obsessed South Asian male leads. However, while Boyle's film adopts a race-blind perspective, promoting a vision (or fantasy) of a multiracial Britain of friendships and intimacy, in Blinded by the Light, Chadha pushes her long-standing interest in race and multiculturalism beyond the feel-good sensibilities of her earlier hit, Bend it Like Beckham. Instead, Qureshi argues, Chadha has made a subversively political film, bristling with an urgent plea for empathy, inspired by the blinding xenophobia of Brexit.

Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood: Contradictions of Failed Masculinity Among South Asian Male Migrants in Greece

2020 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2092705
Author(s):  
Reena Kukreja
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Migrant Status ◽  
Compensatory Strategies ◽  
Asian Male ◽  
Personal Sacrifice ◽  
Male Workers ◽  
Labor Regimes

This article explores the contradictions of the failed masculine stature of South Asian male migrants in Greece. Transnational migration provides low-class rural Indian and Pakistani men an opportunity to socially re-inscribe their adult breadwinner stature. It discusses relational hierarchies of masculinities that shape these men’s encounters with Greek employers, compatriots in Greece, and transnationally located families. Discriminatory state migration and labor regimes intersect with discourses of racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia to reinforce these racialized men’s sense of failed masculinity. Relative powerlessness to a range of local and co-ethnic men further emasculates them. Consequently, they adopt a series of compensatory strategies that include self-valorizing their masculinity relationally vis-à-vis co-ethnic males and Greek male workers. Strategically repositioning self as indispensable to the Greek nation and accentuating personal sacrifice for families notionally transforms them into mythic heroes. Notwithstanding, precarious migrant status in Greece renders hegemonic masculine stature elusive to them.

scholarly journals Lansoprazole-Induced Thrombocytopenia in a Critically Ill Patient: A Case Report

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 700-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Saad ◽  
Hassan Mitwally
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Adverse Drug Reaction ◽  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Platelet Count ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Stress Ulcer ◽  
Critically Ill Patient ◽  
Subsequent Recovery ◽  
Asian Male ◽  
Ulcer Prophylaxis

Introduction: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) may rarely cause thrombocytopenia. To our knowledge, only one case of lansoprazole-induced thrombocytopenia has been reported previously. Case: We report a case of a 50-year-old South Asian male who was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after cardiac arrest during general anesthesia for ureteroscopy. During ICU stay, his platelet count dropped from 315×103/µL to 57×103/µL after 5 days of initiation of lansoprazole for stress-ulcer prophylaxis. After excluding other causes of thrombocytopenia; lansoprazole was stopped and his platelets recovered over the next few days. Later exposure to lansoprazole resulted in another drop in his platelet count with subsequent recovery after discontinuation of lansoprazole. A review of his home medications showed that he had been taking pantoprazole prior to hospitalization. Discussion: Thrombocytopenia has been previously reported with different PPIs. In the previously reported lansoprazole-induced thrombocytopenia, the level of certainty was not high due to lack of re-exposure. In the present case, another exposure to lansoprazole, without intention of rechallenge, reproduced the same adverse drug reaction (ADR). Although platelet-reactive antibodies testing was not available to confirm causation in this case, the Naranjo score was 8 which indicated probable causation by lansoprazole. Despite probable lansoprazole-induced thrombocytopenia, our patient had been tolerating pantoprazole. This finding highlights the different effects of individual PPIs on platelet counts in the same patient. Conclusion: Lansoprazole may cause thrombocytopenia. However, patients who develop lansoprazole-induced thrombocytopenia may tolerate other PPIs.

scholarly journals Primary Conjunctival Pigmented Basal Cell Carcinoma with Increased Numbers of Intra-Tumour Melanocytes, Mimicking Melanoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-173
Author(s):  
Hardeep Singh Mudhar ◽  
Soma Rani Roy ◽  
Murtuza Nuruddin ◽  
Fahmida Hoque
Keyword(s):  
Basal Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Cell Carcinoma ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Basal Cell ◽  
Conjunctival Melanoma ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Cell Cytoplasm ◽  
Clear Margin ◽  
Pigmented Lesions ◽  
Asian Male

A 60-year-old, South-Asian male patient presented with a dark brown lesion on his left conjunctiva surface near the limbus for 2 years. Examination showed a globular, dark brown-coloured mass near the temporal limbus at 4 to 5 o’clock position, measuring 3 × 3 × 2 mm. There were a few scattered flat pigmented lesions near the mass and also a few prominent vessels. The mass underwent wide local excision, with a clear margin, followed by double freeze cryotherapy of the conjunctival margins along with the application of Mitomycin C. The bare sclera was covered by amniotic membrane. Histology surprisingly revealed a nodular basal cell carcinoma (BCC) containing melanin. The melanin was present in the tumour cell cytoplasm, within melanophages and within dendritic, Melan A-positive melanocytes. The BCC was immunohistochemically positive for BerEP4 and negative for EMA. The clinically observed smaller nodules flanking the main pigmented BCC corresponded histologically to pigmented superficial growth pattern BCC connected to the under surface of the conjunctival epithelium. This is the first report of a pigmented BCC of the conjunctiva, mimicking a conjunctival melanoma. Pigmented BCC should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pigmented tumours of the conjunctiva.

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