Made in Machismo: Discovering Gender Patterns in Migration Process

Individuals experience gender uniquely, shaped both by their internal sense of self and external influences from societal institutions such as education, family, religion, government, and economy. Gender impacts one's self-perception, societal treatment, and life roles. The textbook definition of an immigrant is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. Still, the motives and consequences of human mobility are shaped by various factors, such as customary rules based on gender expectations, ethnicity, race, age, and class. This project explores how a migrant's journey impacts and challenges their traditional views of gender roles/identity from their country of origin. This qualitative project highlights gender patterns/dynamics observed through interviews with migrants in the U.S./Mexico Border, using a intersectionality approach to analyze the data collected with the application of inductive reasoning. The migrants interviewed came from Central and South America, where Machismo remains a cultural default. Machismo can be defined as a social pattern in which the Latino male exhibits a strong or exaggerated sense of manliness. This project aims to examine the migration experience through an intersectional lens of gender that highlights the stringency that machismo culture and the migration process have on gender expression.

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

Texas State University

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Mendizabal, Ana

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Bonazzo, Claude

• machismo
• gender dynamics
• intersectionality

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/20189

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/20189