Localizing Iranian diaspora politics: A comparative approach to transnational critique and incorporation

Moghaddari, Sonja (2020). Localizing Iranian diaspora politics: A comparative approach to transnational critique and incorporation. Confluences méditerranée, 113(2), pp. 77-89. L'Harmattan 10.3917/come.113.0077

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The growing body of research on Iranian migration remains limited through the centrality of Southern California and the United States as a context of research and the analytical focus on national contexts. Contributing to research on Iranian diaspora politics, this article proposes an epistemological move toward a comparative examination of interrelations between local embeddedness and transnational agency. Drawing on transnational migration and social movements studies, I illustrate this approach through an historic ethnography of three groups of people who engage in Iranian transnational politics in Hamburg, in Florence and Geneva between 1951 and 2019. Thinking locality comparatively represents an urgent bet towards complicating transnational political positionalities beyond the anti-Iranian regime premise.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology

UniBE Contributor:

Moghaddari, Sonja

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

2102-5991

Publisher:

L'Harmattan

Language:

English

Submitter:

Anja Julienne Wohlgemuth

Date Deposited:

07 Oct 2020 05:50

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:40

Publisher DOI:

10.3917/come.113.0077

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.146849

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/146849

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