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Iranian immigration to the United States is a relatively new political phenomenon and constitutes one of the highest status foreign-born groups in the United States. More Iranians live in the U.S., today than in any other country in the world other than Iran. It began fifty-five years ago with the study abroad of young Iranians. They came to the United States in the 1950's often as temporary residents (students and interns) but eventually changed their status to permanent residents. However, it was the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the establishment of the Islamic Republic, and the eight years o

Iranian Americans -- Cultural assimilation. --- Iranian Americans -- Ethnic identity. --- Iranian Americans -- History. --- Iranian Americans --- Iranian Americans --- Iranian Americans --- History --- Ethnic identity --- Cultural assimilation

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Thousands of Iranians fled their homeland when the 1978–1979 revolution ended the fifty-year reign of the Pahlavi Dynasty. Some fled to Europe and Canada, while others settled in the United States, where anti-Iranian sentiment flared as the hostage crisis unfolded. For those who chose America, Texas became the fourth-largest settlement area, ultimately proving to be a place of paradox for any Middle Easterner in exile. Iranians in Texas culls data, interviews, and participant observations in Iranian communities in Houston, Dallas, and Austin to reveal the difficult, private world of cultural pride, religious experience, marginality, culture clashes, and other aspects of the lives of these immigrants. Examining the political nature of immigration and how the originating and receiving countries shape the prospects of integration, Mohsen Mobasher incorporates his own experience as a Texas scholar born in Iran. Tracing current anti-Muslim sentiment to the Iranian hostage crisis, two decades before 9/11, he observes a radically negative shift in American public opinion that forced thousands of Iranians in the United States to suddenly be subjected to stigmatization and viewed as enemies. The book also sheds light on the transformation of the Iranian family in exile and some of the major challenges that second-generation Iranians face in their interactions with their parents. Bringing to life a unique population in the context of global politics, Iranians in Texas overturns stereotypes while echoing diverse voices.

Iranian Americans --- Iranians --- Immigrants --- Political refugees --- Iran --- Politics and government

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Iranian Americans --- American fiction --- Iranian American fiction (English) --- Ethnology --- Iranians --- Iranian American authors. --- Iran

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Iranian American women --- Iranian Americans --- Moaveni, Azadeh, --- Iran --- Social conditions --- Iranian American women - Biography --- Iranian Americans - Biography --- Moaveni, Azadeh, - 1976 --- -Iran - Social conditions - 1979-1997 --- Iran - Social conditions - 1997 --- -Iranian American women --- -Iran

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"With a gift for capturing the absurd in life, and a deadpan wisdom that comes from surviving a surreal childhood in the Socialist Workers Party, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh has crafted an unsentimental, funny, heartbreaking memoir. Saïd's Iranian-born father and American Jewish mother had one thing in common: their unshakable conviction that the workers' revolution was coming. Separated since their son was nine months old, they each pursued a dream of the perfect socialist society. Pinballing with his mother between makeshift Pittsburgh apartments, falling asleep at party meetings, longing for the luxuries he's taught to despise, Saïd waits for the revolution that never arrives, while his long-absent father quixotically runs as a socialist candidate for president in an Iran about to fall under the ayatollahs. Then comes the hostage crisis, and Saïd is suddenly forced to confront the combustible stew of his identity."--Publisher description.

Socialists --- Iranian Americans --- Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd --- Childhood and youth. --- Socialist Workers Party. --- SWP --- Fourth International. --- Workers Party (1940-1949) --- Socialist Party (U.S.) --- American literature