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The Iranian diaspora refers to Iranian citizens or people of Iranian descent living outside Iran. This includes the varying ethnicities of the Iranian people including the following groups: Persians, Azeris, Kurds, Lors, Baluchs, Arabs, Turkomens, Assyrians, and Armenians.
Sep 1, 2006 · Regardless of size, the Iranian diaspora is extremely heterogeneous with respect to ethnicity, religion, social status, language, gender, political affiliation, education, legal status, and timing and motivation for departure (ranging from political to sociocultural to economic).
The Iranian Diaspora: Challenges, Negotiations, and Transformations. Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. 284 pages. [Published Winter 2020] Migration is not a new phenomenon in the Middle East, and it is certainly not new to Iran and Iranians.
Mobasher’s volume on the Iranian diaspora offers insights into a variety of diasporic Iranian communities, all in the West with the exception of one study on the Iranian experience in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Sep 14, 2023 · Consequently, Iranian diasporas formed in several Western countries as their main destinations. Diverse academic research in gender studies, sociology of the family, and migration has taken an acculturation approach to explaining the struggles of Iranians living abroad.
The contemporary travels and transnational connections of Iranian populations around Iran’s orbit and in the “Global South,” therefore, have been largely neglected.¹ This chapter is an attempt to remedy this by offering ethnographic analysis focusing on the Persian Gulf.
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Feb 1, 2020 · This paper elaborates the contours of a conceptual framework that simultaneously integrates agency and structure perspectives and is therefore able to account for the heterogeneous nature of migration-development interactions and reveals the naivety of recent views celebrating migration as self-help development “from below”.
