ABSTRACT
Based on the premise that masculinity is constructed within geographically and historically located social spaces, this chapter draws on 40 biographical interviews with Mozambican men carried out between 2005 and 2014.1 Focusing on the life stories of Mozambican men who migrated to South Africa from the 1960s onwards, the chapter seeks to contribute to expanding the theoretical and methodological conversations about the spatial dynamics of migrant masculinities. It explores the interconnectedness of masculinity, migration, colonialism, capitalism and socio-economic inequality in Southern Africa. The chapter borrows and expands David Harvey’s notion of spatial fix to highlight the spatial dimension of migrant masculinities and suggests that there is a particular spatial management of masculinities. While the masculinity fix is produced by the racial and gendered dynamics of transnational capitalism, it also associates masculinity with geographically and historically situated spaces, where men engage with their trajectories and perform their subjectivities.
