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  1. en.wikipedia.org

    The Iranian diaspora (collectively known as Iranian expats or expatriates) is the global population of Iranian citizens or people of Iranian descent living outside Iran. [3]In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran published statistics which showed that 2 to 4,037,258 Iranians are living abroad, an increase from previous years.Though many of these people are of Iranian ancestry in UAE ...
  2. migrationpolicy.org

    Despite some degree of overlap, the three phases provide a framework for conceptualizing the global Iranian diaspora. ... Repatriation and Diaspora Culture among Iranians in Sweden." Journal of Refugee Studies 10(2): 115-133. International Consortium for Refugees in Iran. "Factsheet." Available online. IRIN News. 2003. "Iran: Focus on Reverse ...
  3. This extremely tense situation in diaspora led scholar Nasrin Rahimieh, who was a recipient of such targeted harassment and death threats, to highlight the hypocrisy of raising opposition to harassment of Iranian citizens by the Islamic Republic's gasht-e ershad (guidance patrol, or morality police) by creating a diaspora gasht-e enteghaam ...
  4. Iran now has a high literacy rate, and Iranian culture puts a premium on education. But in todays Iran, you still have the best and brightest leaving because the leadership of that country is ...
  5. storymaps.arcgis.com

    The Iranian diaspora refers to individuals who are of Iranian descent or are Iranian living outside of Iran. According to the Migration Policy Institute, there are an estimated 385,000 Iranian immigrants living in the U.S. While Iranians have migrated to the United States in waves, the largest exodus occurred following the Islamic Revolution.
  6. tandfonline.com

    As a diaspora fragmented along ethnic, religious, political and class lines, the Iranian diaspora(s) presents a challenge to any perception of a tightly bound community and solidarities based on common cultural and ethnic references. Based on a survey of opinions conducted among Iranian immigrants regarding the homeland, we argue that while the ...
  7. tandfonline.com

    Footnote 51 While seeking academic education and success seems to be important among Iranians living in Iran, the same pattern among young Iranians in the diaspora is strikingly credited to their assimilation into the culture of another nation-state. This should rather be connected to various factors including the high level of university ...
  8. researchgate.net

    The Iranian diaspora(s) has developed a trans-national diasporic identity drawn from various sources, whether pre-Islamic Persian or multicultural, in a way that diminishes the importance of the ...
  9. utppublishing.com

    Biography: Dr. Elhum Haghighat is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY). Her current research interests include demography (intersectionality of politics and demography, contextual demography), development and democratization, politics of inequality and social stratification, gender, and ...
  10. surfiran.com

    A diaspora is a specific group of people (based on ethnicity or other criteria) spread over various locations, away from their original homeland. When we speak about the Iranian diaspora, we then talk about Iranians and their descendants living outside of Iran. They have either immigrated or were born abroad to Iranian parents.

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    Iranian diaspora

    People of Iranian ancestry outside Iran

    The Iranian diaspora is the global population of Iranian citizens or people of Iranian descent living outside Iran. In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran published statistics which showed that 2 to 4,037,258 Iranians are living abroad, an increase from previous years.Though many of these people are of Iranian ancestry in UAE, Kuwait, Israel, Turkey and Bahrain, not necessarily recent migrants but people who moved out hundreds of years ago or at least prior to the 1979 revolution. These numbers also include half and people with only partial ancestry as well. Over one million of these people and their extended families live in the United States, with anywhere between 100k-500k living in countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Further populations exist in numerous other regions, including many European nations, China, India, and the United Arab Emirates, along with several other Middle Eastern and Levantine nations. Wikipedia

    Americas1,905,813 (47.20%)
    Europe1,184,552 (29.34%)
    Other (Asia and Oceania)1,115,572 (23.46%)
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