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Internal Diversity : Iranian Germans Between Local Boundaries and Transnational Capital.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moghaddari, Sonja.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Global Diversities Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Internal Diversity Iranian Germans Between Local Boundaries and Transnational Capital
  • Acknowledgments
  • Praise for Internal Diversity
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • 1: Introduction
  • Internal Diversity
  • Transnational Social Fields
  • Evaluation and Capital Creation Through Boundary Work
  • Iranian Migration to Hamburg
  • Fieldwork
  • The Structure of This Book
  • References
  • 2: Cohesion and Conflict in Transnational Merchant Families
  • Bazaris Meet Kaufmänner: Conditions of Early Iranian Mercantile Migration
  • Pioneers in Flexible Capital Creation
  • German Alliances?
  • Why Ali and Jalal Were Not Friends
  • Brotherly Ties Between Solidarity and Rivalry
  • The (Image of the) Nuclear Family
  • Dissent, Death, Disruptions
  • Descendants' Positioning Toward Iranians Today
  • References
  • 3: Narrating "Traditional Iranian Carpet Merchants"
  • The Ethnographic Frame
  • A Golden Age?
  • The Iranian Government, the Flüchtling, and Illicit Business Practices
  • Collectively Narrating Through the Crisis
  • References
  • 4: An Association Between Diversity and Exoticism
  • New Beginnings in Old Familiarity
  • A Honari Imaginary
  • A Public Negotiation of the Limits to Identifications
  • The Conflict
  • Collective Identifications Through Inclusion and Exclusion
  • Staging "Iranianness in Hamburg"
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • 5: The Overlapping Uncertainties of Film Professionals
  • The Social Fields of Film Professionals
  • Hushang, Between Contesting and Conforming to Assimilation
  • Zian: What Barriers?
  • Milad, and the Protection of Façades
  • References
  • 6: A Festival at the Interstices of Value Systems
  • The Festival's Concept
  • Introducing the Organizer
  • Fundraising Through Sameness and Difference
  • Discrepant Reactions: Competing Systems of Value
  • The Color Festival: Success or Failure?
  • References
  • 7: Conclusion.
  • Internal Diversity
  • Creating Capital Across Social Fields
  • Politics of Value and Potential for Action
  • Iranian-Germans?
  • References
  • Index.

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