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Away from Home: Iranian Women, Displacement, Cultural Resistance, and Change

This article discusses the gender character of displacement. Using the example of the Iranian female diaspora, it argues that women’s experience of displacement is relatively more positive than that of men, and women, generally, are more prepared and make more efforts to build a home away from home. However, the pressures for cultural resistance against … Continue reading Away from Home: Iranian Women, Displacement, Cultural Resistance, and Change