diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/parser/common/test_index.py b/pandas/tests/io/parser/common/test_index.py
index a37bd010d0e1b..9db1df345404b 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/parser/common/test_index.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/parser/common/test_index.py
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
 
 xfail_pyarrow = pytest.mark.usefixtures("pyarrow_xfail")
 
+# GH#43650: Some expected failures with the pyarrow engine can occasionally
+# cause a deadlock instead, so we skip these instead of xfailing
+skip_pyarrow = pytest.mark.usefixtures("pyarrow_skip")
+
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "data,kwargs,expected",
@@ -271,7 +275,7 @@ def test_empty_with_index(all_parsers):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 def test_empty_with_multi_index(all_parsers):
     # see gh-10467
     data = "x,y,z"
@@ -284,7 +288,7 @@ def test_empty_with_multi_index(all_parsers):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 def test_empty_with_reversed_multi_index(all_parsers):
     data = "x,y,z"
     parser = all_parsers
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/parser/common/test_ints.py b/pandas/tests/io/parser/common/test_ints.py
index 0026bdc3c0ae3..aef2020fe0847 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/parser/common/test_ints.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/parser/common/test_ints.py
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 )
 import pandas._testing as tm
 
-xfail_pyarrow = pytest.mark.usefixtures("pyarrow_xfail")
+# GH#43650: Some expected failures with the pyarrow engine can occasionally
+# cause a deadlock instead, so we skip these instead of xfailing
 skip_pyarrow = pytest.mark.usefixtures("pyarrow_skip")
 
 
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ def test_int64_min_issues(all_parsers):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("conv", [None, np.int64, np.uint64])
 def test_int64_overflow(all_parsers, conv):
     data = """ID
@@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ def test_int64_overflow(all_parsers, conv):
             parser.read_csv(StringIO(data), converters={"ID": conv})
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "val", [np.iinfo(np.uint64).max, np.iinfo(np.int64).max, np.iinfo(np.int64).min]
 )
@@ -177,7 +178,7 @@ def test_int64_uint64_range(all_parsers, val):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "val", [np.iinfo(np.uint64).max + 1, np.iinfo(np.int64).min - 1]
 )
@@ -191,7 +192,7 @@ def test_outside_int64_uint64_range(all_parsers, val):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("exp_data", [[str(-1), str(2 ** 63)], [str(2 ** 63), str(-1)]])
 def test_numeric_range_too_wide(all_parsers, exp_data):
     # No numerical dtype can hold both negative and uint64
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/parser/conftest.py b/pandas/tests/io/parser/conftest.py
index efef06ef28574..2070057aff10b 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/parser/conftest.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/parser/conftest.py
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ def csv1(datapath):
     return os.path.join(datapath("io", "data", "csv"), "test1.csv")
 
 
-_cParserHighMemory = CParserHighMemory()
-_cParserLowMemory = CParserLowMemory()
-_pythonParser = PythonParser()
-_pyarrowParser = PyArrowParser()
+_cParserHighMemory = CParserHighMemory
+_cParserLowMemory = CParserLowMemory
+_pythonParser = PythonParser
+_pyarrowParser = PyArrowParser
 
 _py_parsers_only = [_pythonParser]
 _c_parsers_only = [_cParserHighMemory, _cParserLowMemory]
@@ -105,13 +105,14 @@ def all_parsers(request):
     """
     Fixture all of the CSV parsers.
     """
-    if request.param.engine == "pyarrow":
+    parser = request.param()
+    if parser.engine == "pyarrow":
         pytest.importorskip("pyarrow", VERSIONS["pyarrow"])
         # Try setting num cpus to 1 to avoid hangs?
         import pyarrow
 
         pyarrow.set_cpu_count(1)
-    return request.param
+    return parser
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(params=_c_parsers_only, ids=_c_parser_ids)
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ def c_parser_only(request):
     """
     Fixture all of the CSV parsers using the C engine.
     """
-    return request.param
+    return request.param()
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(params=_py_parsers_only, ids=_py_parser_ids)
@@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ def python_parser_only(request):
     """
     Fixture all of the CSV parsers using the Python engine.
     """
-    return request.param
+    return request.param()
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(params=_pyarrow_parsers_only, ids=_pyarrow_parsers_ids)
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ def pyarrow_parser_only(request):
     """
     Fixture all of the CSV parsers using the Pyarrow engine.
     """
-    return request.param
+    return request.param()
 
 
 def _get_all_parser_float_precision_combinations():
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ def _get_all_parser_float_precision_combinations():
     ids = []
     for parser, parser_id in zip(_all_parsers, _all_parser_ids):
         for precision in parser.float_precision_choices:
-            params.append((parser, precision))
+            params.append((parser(), precision))
             ids.append(f"{parser_id}-{precision}")
 
     return {"params": params, "ids": ids}
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_parse_dates.py b/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_parse_dates.py
index 6ef6035b96fbe..17c107814995c 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_parse_dates.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/parser/test_parse_dates.py
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@
 
 xfail_pyarrow = pytest.mark.usefixtures("pyarrow_xfail")
 
+# GH#43650: Some expected failures with the pyarrow engine can occasionally
+# cause a deadlock instead, so we skip these instead of xfailing
+skip_pyarrow = pytest.mark.usefixtures("pyarrow_skip")
+
 # constant
 _DEFAULT_DATETIME = datetime(1, 1, 1)
 
@@ -1573,7 +1577,7 @@ def test_parse_timezone(all_parsers):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "date_string",
     ["32/32/2019", "02/30/2019", "13/13/2019", "13/2019", "a3/11/2018", "10/11/2o17"],
@@ -1585,7 +1589,7 @@ def test_invalid_parse_delimited_date(all_parsers, date_string):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "date_string,dayfirst,expected",
     [
@@ -1608,7 +1612,7 @@ def test_parse_delimited_date_swap_no_warning(
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "date_string,dayfirst,expected",
     [
@@ -1643,6 +1647,7 @@ def _helper_hypothesis_delimited_date(call, date_string, **kwargs):
     return msg, result
 
 
+@skip_pyarrow
 @given(date_strategy)
 @settings(deadline=None)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("delimiter", list(" -./"))
@@ -1678,7 +1683,7 @@ def test_hypothesis_delimited_date(date_format, dayfirst, delimiter, test_dateti
     assert result == expected
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "names, usecols, parse_dates, missing_cols",
     [
@@ -1711,7 +1716,7 @@ def test_missing_parse_dates_column_raises(
         )
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 def test_date_parser_and_names(all_parsers):
     # GH#33699
     parser = all_parsers
@@ -1721,7 +1726,7 @@ def test_date_parser_and_names(all_parsers):
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
-@xfail_pyarrow
+@skip_pyarrow
 def test_date_parser_usecols_thousands(all_parsers):
     # GH#39365
     data = """A,B,C