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Social development

Chapters, city cells, events and programmes for every generation.

Read: Chapters by country

iranians.global

Development

Social development

Chapters, city cells, events and programmes for every generation.

Read: Chapters by countryJoin

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Academy126 courses, 126 open for enrolmentCivic3 campaigns, 5 programmesHeritage116 days to keep, 40 chronology entriesNews88 approved sources, no confirmed events yetChaptersforming. None is recognised yet

01 Chapters by country

A 6
CountryChapterCities
AfghanistanFormingNone listed yet
ArgentinaFormingNone listed yet
ArmeniaFormingYerevan
AustraliaFormingSydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth
AustriaFormingVienna
AzerbaijanFormingNone listed yet
B 3
CountryChapterCities
BahrainFormingNone listed yet
BelgiumFormingBrussels
BrazilFormingSão Paulo
C 3
CountryChapterCities
CanadaFormingCalgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal
ChinaFormingNone listed yet
CyprusFormingNone listed yet
D 1
CountryChapterCities
DenmarkFormingCopenhagen
E 1
CountryChapterCities
EgyptFormingNone listed yet
F 2
CountryChapterCities
FinlandFormingNone listed yet
FranceFormingLyon, Paris
G 3
CountryChapterCities
GeorgiaFormingBatumi, Tbilisi
GermanyFormingMunich, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne
GreeceFormingNone listed yet
H 1
CountryChapterCities
HungaryFormingNone listed yet
I 4
CountryChapterCities
IndiaFormingMumbai, Pune, Hyderabad
IraqFormingNone listed yet
IsraelFormingJerusalem, Holon and Bat Yam
ItalyFormingRome, Milan, Turin
J 1
CountryChapterCities
JapanFormingTokyo
K 3
CountryChapterCities
KazakhstanFormingNone listed yet
KenyaFormingLamu and Mombasa
KuwaitFormingNone listed yet
M 2
CountryChapterCities
MalaysiaFormingKuala Lumpur
MexicoFormingNone listed yet
N 4
CountryChapterCities
NetherlandsFormingAmsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam
New ZealandFormingNone listed yet
NigeriaFormingNone listed yet
NorwayFormingOslo
O 1
CountryChapterCities
OmanFormingNone listed yet
P 1
CountryChapterCities
PakistanFormingNone listed yet
Q 1
CountryChapterCities
QatarFormingNone listed yet
R 1
CountryChapterCities
RussiaFormingNone listed yet
S 4
CountryChapterCities
South AfricaFormingJohannesburg, Cape Town
SpainFormingNone listed yet
SwedenFormingMalmö, Stockholm, Uppsala, Gothenburg
SwitzerlandFormingGeneva, Zurich
T 3
CountryChapterCities
TajikistanFormingNone listed yet
TanzaniaFormingZanzibar
TürkiyeFormingAnkara, Denizli, Istanbul, Van
U 3
CountryChapterCities
United Arab EmiratesFormingAbu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah
United KingdomFormingLondon, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow
United StatesFormingLos Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC area, Atlanta, Chicago, New York area, Houston, Dallas, Seattle
V 1
CountryChapterCities
VenezuelaFormingNone listed yet

02 Programmes

Programmes for every generation, run through Chapters and local Chapter cells. They are in preparation or forming, and none of them is running yet.

  • 01

    Youth

    A network for young people on leadership, identity and heritage.

    Forming

  • 02

    Women

    A network for women on leadership, enterprise and mutual support.

    Forming

  • 03

    Elders

    Company, care and the recording of memory for older members of the community.

    In preparation

  • 04

    Wellbeing

    Vetted referrals to culturally competent mental health and social care.

    In preparation

  • 05

    Newcomers

    First steps in a new country, with a local guide from a Chapter.

    In preparation

  • 06

    Families and heritage schools

    Support for families and weekend schools that teach the languages and heritage of Iran.

    In preparation

  • 07

    Convenings

    Festivals, lectures and gatherings, with private venues and published rules.

    In preparation

Cite this page
APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Social development. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/development/social/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Social Development.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/development/social/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_development_social,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Social development},
	url = {https://iranians.global/development/social/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/development/social/},
}
RIS
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AU  - Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council
DA  - 2026///
PY  - 2026
ID  - idcdc2026_developmen
N1  - Licence: CC BY 4.0
TI  - Social development
UR  - https://iranians.global/development/social/
ER  -

Licence CC BY 4.0

03 Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Upward Mobility, Despite a Stigmatised Identity: Immigrants of Iranian Origin in Sweden

    Alireza Behtoui · 2022 · Nordic Journal of Migration Research

    ArticleCrossrefDOAJOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

  2. Lived Experiences of Long COVID in Iranian Immigrants in Canada: Implications for Post-Infection Care and Global Health Equity

    Askarian M, Groot G, Carr T · 2026 · Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  3. Crafting an Identity in the Diaspora: Iranian Immigrants in the United States

    Valentine M. Moghadam · 2007 · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks

    ChapterOpenAlexCrossref

  4. Cuisines of Diaspora: Expressions of Iranian Foodways & Culinary Traditions

    Nazmi Kamal, Marian Chung · 2022 · Journal of Gastronomy and Tourism

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  5. Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora

    Claudia Yaghoobi · 2023 · Edinburgh University Press

    BookCrossref

  6. Health Impacts of Migration and Policy on the Iranian Diaspora.

    Lee J, Naseh M, Badiezadeh S et al. · 2026 · J Immigr Minor Health

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  7. A home far away? Religious identity and transnational relations in the Iranian diaspora

    CAMERON MCAULIFFE · 2007 · Global Networks

    ArticleCrossref

  8. Leisure as Catalyst for Well-Being and Sense of Belonging Among Iranian Immigrant Women Aged 30-55 in Ottawa, Canada.

    Hadidi M, O’Connor E, Abu-Zahra N et al. · 2026 · Int J Environ Res Public Health

    ArticleEurope PMCOpen access

  9. Ethnic Identity from a Macro-Sociological Perspective: Second-generation Iranian “immigrants”

    Fereshteh Ahmadi · 2017 · Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts – JOSHA

    ArticleCrossref

  10. Divergent Heterogeneities in Iranian Migration in France: Semantic and Theoretical Limitations of Diaspora

    Seyed Mahdi Etemadifard, Tahereh Khazaei · 2020 · International Migration

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  11. The Iranian diaspora in Malaysia: a socio-economic and political analysis

    Abdol Moghset Bani Kamal, Ishtiaq Hossain · 2016 · Diaspora Studies

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  12. The Iranian diaspora and the homeland: redefining the role of a centre

    Ronen A. Cohen, Bosmat Yefet · 2019 · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

    ArticleCrossref

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; Europe PMC (Metadata reusable; full text under each article’s licence), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23.

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