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Identity and Exile: The Iranian Diaspora Between Solidarity and Difference

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Over five million Iranians are in exile – about 120,000 of which live in Germany. They are influencing political and cultural debates in Iran on a daily basis. The aim of this publication is to promote a process of reflection within the diaspora and provide an input concerning the role and potential of the diaspora community as well.

Product details
Date of Publication
December 2015
Publisher
Heinrich Böll Foundation in co-operation with Transparency for Iran
Number of Pages
164
Licence
All rights reserved
Language of publication
English
ISBN / DOI
978-3-86928-146-9
Table of contents

Preface    

Introduction  

Amy Malek

Displaced, Re-rooted, Transnational Considerations in Theory and Practice of Being an Iranian outside Iran    

Cameron McAuliffe

Unsettling the Iranian Diaspora: Nation, Religion and the Conditions of Exile    

     

 Judith Albrecht

 «How to be an Iranian Woman in the 21st Century?»

 Female Identities in the Diaspora    

     

Donya Alinejad & Halleh Ghorashi

From Bridging to Building: Discourses of Organizing Iranian Americans across Generations     

Ramin Jahanbegloo

Being Iranian today      

Pardis Shafafi

Long Distance Activism, Looking beyond Teaching old Dogmatics new Tricks  

Manuchehr Sanadjian

Food, Narrated Dislocation and Diasporic Presence among Iranians in Germany    

    

Sonja Moghaddari

Engaging with Social Inequalities: The Stakes of Social Relations among

Iranian Migrants  

     

Sahar Sadeghi

Boundaries of Belonging: Iranian Immigrants and their Adult Children in the US and Germany     

     

Narges Bajoghli & Mana Kharrazi

Iranian Alliances across Borders  

     

Yalda Zarbakhch

Sitting on the Fence or Straddling it? DIWAN – German-Iranian Encounters    

An Interview with Asghar Eslami, Association for Communication, Migration and Refugee Assistance (Kargah)

«Sometimes we're very noisy, sometimes rather quiet»  

    

About the authors