1. Adult Children of Professional and Entrepreneurial Immigrants: Second-Generation Iranians in the United States

Bozorgmehr, Mehdi; Ketcham, Eric

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“…Although the questionnaire was not wholly focused on these questions and was more broadly based in design, differences in attitudes based on gender and ethnic identity came into view in our results. There is, of course, a growing body of literature on Iranian-Americans, most of which considers specific geographical contexts (Amin 2017 ; Chaichian 1997 ; Hanassab 1998 ; Honey 1978 ; Mobasher 2012 ), major demographic trends (Bozorgmehr 1998 ; Bozorgmehr and Ketcham 2018 ; Elahi 2006 and 2008 ; Foltz 2009 ; Higgins 2004 ; Lotfalian 2009 ; Mahdi 1998 ; Modarres 1998 ; Ronaghy et al 1976 ) and the intersection of culture and identity (Amine 2018 ; Bennett 2008 ; Darznik 2010 ; Hoffman 1989a , 1989b , Karim and Khorrami 1999 ; Karim 2006 ; Maghbouleh 2018 ; Malek 2006 ; Mostofi 2003 ; Motlagh 2008 ). Our project is the first to focus on the community of scholars that would include those working on Iranian-Americans or Iranians in the diaspora.…”

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Gender differences in the professional experiences of Iran specialists in American academia

Borquez

Amin

2022

SN Soc Sci

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The work on gender differences in academic life spans a wide array of colleges and universities, scholarly disciplines, and countries. Using a survey conducted in 2016 to capture “the state of the field” in Iranian Studies as US–Iran relations were in a brief thaw, this paper draws on some of these perspectives and explores gender differences in the professional experiences of Iranian Studies scholars working in the USA. Iranian Studies has grown and diversified in the USA since the 1960s. This expansion occurred despite disruptions in Iran itself and in US–Iranian relations since 1979, with many US-based Iran specialists having heritage connections to Iran. The survey, which is the first of its kind conducted among this particular academic community, covered a range of topics related to respondents’ academic and professional experiences, career outlook, and political activities. The results spotlight some notable differences—statistically significant differences in several cases—in the professional experiences of men and women in this academic field. Women respondents were more likely to be of junior rank or graduate students and were more likely than men to feel that gender identity influenced their professional milestones. Women were more likely to list the desire for social impact as a professional motivation than men. Women tended to feel less sanguine about the state of their careers, their professional environment, their career prospects, and the state of the Iranian Studies field as a whole. Some of these attitudes varied depending on their self-identification as Iranian, Iranian-American or American, while some held true across self-identification. These results mostly confirmed expectations based on similar research discussed in our literature review.

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Gender differences in the professional experiences of Iran specialists in American academia

Borquez

Amin

2022

SN Soc Sci

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Second-Generation Iranian Zoroastrians in a New American Homeland: A Case Study in California

Niechciał

2022

Iran. stud.

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The article contributes to filling the research gap concerning Iranian Zoroastrians in diaspora. Using a narrative approach, it explores how second-generation Zoroastrians raised in the United States learn and practice religion while facing the challenges of a pluralistic American society. The article includes a case study of two young Zoroastrian women interviewed in 2019, members of the Californian community. The contrastive cases shed light on the internal heterogeneity of Zoroastrianism, different ways the religion is perceived and experienced, and different ideas about future preservation of the ethno-religious heritage. The study contributes to an understanding of how Zoroastrianism evolves on a new continent and how it differs from what Zoroastrian immigrants brought from Iran.

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From white to what? MENA and Iranian American non-white reflected race

Maghbouleh

2019

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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1. Adult Children of Professional and Entrepreneurial Immigrants: Second-Generation Iranians in the United States

Cited by 6 publications

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Gender differences in the professional experiences of Iran specialists in American academia

Gender differences in the professional experiences of Iran specialists in American academia

Second-Generation Iranian Zoroastrians in a New American Homeland: A Case Study in California

From white to what? MENA and Iranian American non-white reflected race

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