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Children of Iranian Immigrants and the Question of Identity
Abstract
With the immigration of a relatively large number of Iranians in the past three decades to various parts of the world, notably to Europe and especially to the United States, while the first generation immigrants have been trying to assimilate in their new societies and environments, their children have been facing the dilemma of national and cultural identity and have tried to answer questions pertaining to their own place in these societies. In regards to Iranian Americans of the second generation, the dilemma of Iranian-Americanness has been frustrating and at the same time enlightening for many members of this generation. Although in some respects it is a unique dilemma, the hybrid identity of the children of first-generation Iranian immigrants in different parts of the world, particularly North America and Europe, is not dissimilar to the hybrid identity of other immigrants when it is viewed the context of the "global village" in which we live. By examining the published writing of a number of Iranian-American university students, this paper examines the phenomenon of hybrid identities in the so-called "globalized world."
Discipline
Literature
Geographic Area
Iran
Sub Area
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