Class, Intersectionality and Iranian Diaspora

Migration Status, Class, Race and Home

“…As such, people who, at some point in time, experience privilege in one aspects of their lives but not in others, might see their position as precarious. Fathi (2017) in her research with Iranian migrant doctors and dentists in the UK, shows that before registering as medics with the British medical and dental councils, these skilled migrants experience extreme precariousness and they may resort to work in nonrelated positions. However, once they pass that hurdle, become more privileged migrants, with many spatial rights and security, they use consumption practices to place themselves in their 'correct' places as middle-class citizens rather than migrants.…”

‘City as Home’: Conducting walking interviews as biographical method with migrant men in Cork

“…This approach directs us to note the intersectional nature of our gendered, classed, ethnic (and other) experiences that despite being interrelated, are mutually exclusive of each other (Yuval-Davis, 2011). My research and approach to understand narratives is informed by intersectionality studies (Fathi, 2017). In my view, any form of narration is intersectional, epistemologically stems from personal standpoints in understanding the world.…”

Pursuing social justice in gender and migration research

“…In gender and migration research, intersectionality has been increasingly gaining ground. Recent empirical works have shown its effectiveness in unveiling the precarious situation and subordination of migrants (e.g., Fantu et al., 2022; Fathi, 2017; Izaguirre et al., 2021). Intersectionality has also been employed to illuminate racialized relations and racism in the context of migration, in alignment with intersectionality's idea of social justice (e.g., Ang et al., 2023; García, 2017; Yoong & Lee, 2023).…”