Iranians in Texas: Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity

by Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher, Nestor Rodriguez (Introduction)

Overview

An exploration of the link between politics of migration, prospects of integration, and ethnic identity among Iranian immigrants and their descendants in the United States, spanning from the 1970s to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781477331323
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	03/18/2025
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mohsen M. Mobasher teaches anthropology and sociology as an associate professor at University of Houston-Downtown. He is the author of Migration, Globalization, and Ethnic Relations: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

Table of Contents

• Foreword by Nestor Rodriguez
• Preface
• Preface to the New Edition
• Introduction
• Introduction to the New Edition
• 1. The Paradox of Migration: Neither Happy in Exile nor Looking Forward to Returning Home
• 2. To Be or Not to Be an Iranian: Politics, Media, and the Paradox of National Identity
• 3. Double Ambivalence and Double Detachment: The Paradox of Living in the United States
• 4. To Be an Iranian, American, or Iranian American: Family, Cultural Resistance, and the Paradox of Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Iranian Americans
• 5. Exile and the Paradox of Gender, Marriage, and Family
• 6. States, Foreign Policy, and the Paradox of Inclusion: U.S.-Iran Diplomatic Negotiations since Obama and the Predicament of Iranian Americans
• 7. Exile and Political Activism: The Paradox of National Allegiance and Political Loyalty
• Conclusion
• Afterword
• Appendix. Research Methodology
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index

Editorial Reviews

Overall Iranians in Texas is a timely and highly informative account of Iranian Americans that makes an important contribution to immigration scholarship.

Immigrants and Minorities Journal

In this large-scale, comprehensive, and extended time study of Iranian immigrants in Texas, author Mohsen Mobasher used political history between the two countries; four years of participant-observation from 1993 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2005 in Houston, Dallas, and Austin; surveys; open-ended interviews; census materials; printed materials; and information about various Iranian organizations and groups. . . .Throughout the text, the author intersperses statistics with informant quotes and individual life stories.

American Anthropologist

Overall Iranians in Texas is a timely and highly informative account of Iranian Americans that makes an important contribution to immigration scholarship.-- "Immigrants and Minorities Journal" (4/15/2015 12:00:00 AM)

In this large-scale, comprehensive, and extended time study of Iranian immigrants in Texas, author Mohsen Mobasher used political history between the two countries; four years of participant-observation from 1993 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2005 in Houston, Dallas, and Austin; surveys; open-ended interviews; census materials; printed materials; and information about various Iranian organizations and groups. . . .Throughout the text, the author intersperses statistics with informant quotes and individual life stories.-- "American Anthropologist" (11/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)

From the Publisher

"Overall Iranians in Texas is a timely and highly informative account of Iranian Americans that makes an important contribution to immigration scholarship."

Immigrants and Minorities Journal

"Overall Iranians in Texas is a timely and highly informative account of Iranian Americans that makes an important contribution to immigration scholarship."

Immigrants and Minorities Journal

"Overall Iranians in Texas is a timely and highly informative account of Iranian Americans that makes an important contribution to immigration scholarship."

Immigrantsand Minorities Journal

"In this large-scale, comprehensive, and extended time study of Iranian immigrants in Texas, author Mohsen Mobasher used political history between the two countries; four years of participant-observation from 1993 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2005 in Houston, Dallas, and Austin; surveys; open-ended interviews; census materials; printed materials; and information about various Iranian organizations and groups. . . .Throughout the text, the author intersperses statistics with informant quotes and individual life stories."

American Anthropologist - Mary Elaine Hegland