Culture beyond country : strategies of inclusion in the global Iranian diaspora / Amy Malek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malek, Amy, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iranian diaspora.

Iranians--Foreign countries--Ethnic identity.

Iranians.

Iranians--Foreign countries--Social conditions.

Social integration.

Multiculturalism.

Iran--Emigration and immigration.

Iran.

multiculturalism.

Iranians--Social conditions.

Iranians--Ethnic identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Other Title:

Strategies of inclusion in the global Iranian diaspora

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"With an estimated 5 to 8 million people spread across the globe, the Iranian diaspora has become a visible and dynamic cultural presence—especially in North America and Europe. Faced with shallow or distorted portrayals, diasporic Iranians have responded to persistent misrepresentations and marginalization by turning to culture as a deliberate strategy of inclusion. Reshaping how their stories are told, community organizers, artists, and entrepreneurs are actively challenging public narratives, asserting new cultural imaginaries, and navigating the terms of inclusion and exclusion, putting new visions of Iranian identity into the public eye.Drawing on transnational ethnographic fieldwork and over 125 semi-structured interviews conducted over the course of 16 years, Culture Beyond Country offers the first comparative ethnography of these cultural strategies of inclusion, examining the distinct practices and experiences of Iranians in three key cities of the diaspora, Los Angeles, Stockholm, and Toronto. Attending to the institutional and ideological forces that come to bear on Iranian cultural organizers in these three diasporic locations, Amy Malek examines how immigrants and their descendants negotiate belonging in response to various and shifting state approaches to cultural citizenship. The volume examines how state multicultural policy influences who is empowered to represent Iranian culture, how local factors shape expressions of Iranian identity across the diaspora, and how these representations are contested within Iranian communities."-- From De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Departures and arrivals

Asserting “freedom, dignity, and wealth” in Los Angeles

Contesting cultural belonging(s) in Stockholm

Navigating multiculturalism in Toronto

Comparing Iranian diasporic strategies in multicultural societies

Conclusion: belonging, like homes, must be built.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 27, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Malek, Amy. Culture beyond country.

ISBN:

9781479831777

9781479831760

147983176X

1479831778

OCLC:

1547648294

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license