Conditional Belonging : The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics / Sahar Sadeghi.
2023
JV8741 .S325 2023
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Title
Conditional Belonging : The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics / Sahar Sadeghi.
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ISBN
9781479805037
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9781479805037.001.0001 doi
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JV8741 .S325 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.891/55043
Summary
A compelling account of how race and politics have affected Iranian immigrants in the United Statesand GermanyIranians have a complex and contradictory relationship with race. Though categorized as "white" by the US census, many Iranian Americans remain marginalized, and experience racial and political stigma daily. On the other hand, Iranian Germans who have been in Germany for decades, and are typically regarded as 'good foreigners,' continue to experience marginality and discrimination illustrating the limitations of integration and citizenship. Conditional Belonging explores these apparent contradictions through a comparative analysis of the Iranian diasporic experience in the United States and Germany, focusing particularly on the different processes of racialization of the immigrants.Drawing from eighty-eight interviews with first- and second-generation Iranians living in California and Hamburg, Sahar Sadeghi illuminates how international events, global political policy, and national social climates influence the extent to which Iranians define themselves as members of their adopted nations. All these factors lead to radically different experiences of belonging, or more specifically "conditional belonging," for Iranians living in Western nations-while those in America might have situational access to whiteness, this is not always available to Iranians in Germany. The combination of these experiences results in perceptions, narrations, and experiences of what the author calls "being but not belonging." Conditional Belonging is an important and timely book that broadens our understanding of how unpredictable and fluid a sense of belonging to a country can be.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. Layered and Complicated: Migration and Settlement in the United States and Germany
2. Guilty by Association: Iran, the US, and the Power of Global Politics
3. Refugees and Ausländers: The Persistence of Racial Nationalism
4. Racial and Cultural Flexibility: Conditional Belonging in the United States and Germany
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Research Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Introduction
1. Layered and Complicated: Migration and Settlement in the United States and Germany
2. Guilty by Association: Iran, the US, and the Power of Global Politics
3. Refugees and Ausländers: The Persistence of Racial Nationalism
4. Racial and Cultural Flexibility: Conditional Belonging in the United States and Germany
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Research Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author