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Iranian diaspora studies

Waves of the Iranian diaspora

Why and how Iranians left, where they settled, and how each wave built its community.

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Levels
Foundations
Study time
16 h
Wave
1
Status
Outline drafted

At a glance

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Sources

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  1. Persis Karim, Amy Malek (2023). Iranian Diaspora Studies Through a Wider Lens: A Report on the “Iranian Diaspora in Global Perspective” Conference at UCLA, February 2023. Association for Iranian Studies. DOI 10.21220/208
  2. Leila Samadi Rendy (2016). Iranian Diaspora Literature of Women. Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.200395
  3. Claudia Yaghoobi (2023). Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora. Edinburgh University Press. DOI 10.3366/edinburgh/9781399512374.001.0001
  4. 1 The Iranian Revolution and the Subsequent Waves of Emigration (2022). Religion and Nation. DOI 10.1515/9781782389408-004
  5. Jamal Ibrahim Haidar, Seyed Hossein Mirjalili (2016). Bridging Iranian Exporters with Foreign Markets: Does Diaspora Matter?. Journal of Economic Integration. DOI 10.11130/jei.2016.31.3.630

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A map of the main positions, each with its own sources, is in preparation.

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01About this course

Who it is for
Diaspora members of every generation, researchers and host-country partners.
Format
Self-paced online with family-history exercises.
Study time
About 16 hours, estimated
Before you start
Nothing. Everyone is welcome.
Discipline
Iranian diaspora studies

02What you will be able to do

  • Distinguish the main migration waves and their causes.
  • Explain how statistics count, and miss, the diaspora.
  • Compare the community’s history in at least two countries.
  • Record a family migration story with consent.

03Modules

  1. 01

    Old dispersions

    Parsis, Shirazi traders and Persianate courts.

  2. 02

    Students and professionals before 1979

    Study abroad and early communities.

  3. 03

    1979 and the 1980s

    Revolution, war and exile.

  4. 04

    1990s to 2010s

    Family, study and work migration.

  5. 05

    Recent departures

    Including the movements of 2022 and after, with sources.

  6. 06

    Counting the diaspora

    Measures, sources and why numbers differ.

04Assessment and completion

A consent-based family migration interview, kept by the family; a short reflection is shared.

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06Who teaches it

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07More from Iranian diaspora studies

08Further reading

Suggested by open metadata, not yet reviewed.

  1. Iranian Diaspora Studies Through a Wider Lens: A Report on the “Iranian Diaspora in Global Perspective” Conference at UCLA, February 2023

    Persis Karim, Amy Malek · 2023 · Association for Iranian Studies

    ArticleDataCiteOpenAIRE

  2. Iranian Diaspora Literature of Women

    Leila Samadi Rendy · 2016 · Zenodo

    ThesisDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora

    Claudia Yaghoobi · 2023 · Edinburgh University Press

    BookCrossref

  4. 1 The Iranian Revolution and the Subsequent Waves of Emigration

    2022 · Religion and Nation

    ChapterCrossref

  5. Bridging Iranian Exporters with Foreign Markets: Does Diaspora Matter?

    Jamal Ibrahim Haidar, Seyed Hossein Mirjalili · 2016 · Journal of Economic Integration

    ArticleOpenAlexOpenAIREOpen access

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 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; Zenodo (Metadata CC0 1.0; each record under its own licence), 2026-10-23.

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0.1, draft outline
Review
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APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Waves of the Iranian diaspora. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/learn/catalogue/waves-of-the-iranian-diaspora/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Waves of the Iranian Diaspora.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/learn/catalogue/waves-of-the-iranian-diaspora/.

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	title = {Waves of the {Iranian} diaspora},
	url = {https://iranians.global/learn/catalogue/waves-of-the-iranian-diaspora/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/learn/catalogue/waves-of-the-iranian-diaspora/},
}

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