عنوان

'Assimulation' in the Land of Ten-Thousand Iranian Communities: Public Assimilation Strategies, Private Preservation Identities

شماره

TL49104

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

'Assimulation' in the Land of Ten-Thousand Iranian Communities: Public Assimilation Strategies, Private Preservation Identities

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Tracy Jo Zank

نام ساير پديدآوران

Beeman, William O.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Minnesota

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

نام خاص و کميت اثر

565

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Bashiri, Iraj; Lipset, David; Valentine, David

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-35523-9

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

Anthropology

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Minnesota

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

Early research on Iranians in the global diaspora has demonstrated specific contexts in which Iranians express transnational identity. Much of this research presents and configures "the community" as a harmonious whole through narrow frames of reference, such as ethnic institutions, economic enclaves, majority-minority assessment based on discrimination and prejudice, and inter-generational and gender change. This study addresses the Twin Cities' Iranian community as a dynamic, dispersed body of relationships and interactions characterized by an institutional fission-fusion pattern with consequences for ethnic group consciousness and individual identification with and expression of Iranianness. I employ a national and gender identity approach to underscore how Iran's vacillating political history has crafted modern Iranian men and women, first, in alignment with the West, and then along Islamic ideals. Community, consequently, expands and contracts according to global, micro-macro occurrences. A waning sense of identity incites a centripetal "fusion phase" of institutional life, uniting Iranians through the public celebration of pre-Islamic heritage, privately with extended family, and attempts to teach Persian, a critical tool to navigate the complexities of communication in a hierarchal culture. Paradoxically, the "fusion phase" presents obstacles in intra-cultural interaction, leading to a "fission effect". Fissioning eludes national camaraderie and community involvement as individuals assess each other's location in the social hierarchy. The analysis of these identity patterns has been explained using transnational approaches with an emphasis on associations forged in power-vying activities aimed to displace authority and reconfigure national narratives. This dissertation explores these social dynamics in the context of the centripetal fusion and centrifugal fission pattern to explain how Twin Cities' Iranians cultivate community, despite geographic dispersal, through a shared, intimate micro-history forged in a portable ideology that displaces monolithic assumptions of tradition, identity, and belonging.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cultural anthropology; Middle Eastern Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Assimilation;Community;Gender;Immigration;Iranian diaspora;Transnational identity

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Grace Petinos, Stephanie

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Beeman, William O.

تقسيم فرعي

Anthropology

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Minnesota

شماره بازیابی

1853480680; 10195226

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y