Sökning: "Iranian Diaspora"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Iranian Diaspora.

1. 1. Diasporic Narratives of Sexuality : Identity Formation among Iranian- Swedish Women

   Författare :Fataneh Farahani; Lena Gerholm; Beverley Skeggs; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; women’s sexuality; discursive analysis; gender; Islam; Iran; Sweden; veil; virginity; migration; diaspora; agency; hybrid identity; cultural routes; Orientalism; narrative; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the sexuality of Iranian women living in Sweden. Considering sexuality as gendered and socio-culturally constructed, I examine the impact of Iranian Islamic discourses, contemporary socialization and migration on women’s narrations of sexuality. LÄS MER

3. 2. Nation and Novel : A Study of Persian and Kurdish narrative discourse

   Författare :Hashem Ahmadzadeh; Martin van Bruinessen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Iranian languages; Modern Persian literature; modern Kurdish literature; novel; Persian novel; Kurdish novel; nationalism; nation; identity; modernity; Iran; Kurdistan; Iranska språk - allmänt; iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Sammanfattning : The present work provides a description of the rise of the Persian and Kurdish novel, using as its background specific definitions and theories of the novel and its emergence. Considering the novel as an originally European genre, the study looks at the different prerequisites for its emergence, e.g. LÄS MER

4. 3. Onward Migration : The Transnational Trajectories of Iranians Leaving Sweden

   Författare :Melissa Kelly; Roger Andersson; David Ley; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Onward migration; Transnationalism; Iranian Diaspora; Mobility and Settlement; European Welfare State; Sweden; London; Highly Educated Migrants; EU mobility; Cosmopolitanism; Class and Culture; Life Course Research; Narrative Research;

   Sammanfattning : Onward migration is an understudied process whereby people leave their country of origin, settle in a second country for a period of time, and then migrate on to a third country. This dissertation explores the transnational trajectories of one specific group of onward migrants. LÄS MER

5. 4. A study of European, Persian and Arabic loans in standard Sorani

   Författare :Jafar Hasanpoor; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; borrowing; purification; language contact; standard Sorani Kurdish; Mukri dialect; norm conflict; Silemani dialect; modernisation; standardisation; nationalism; Språkvetenskap; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines processes of lexical borrowing in the Sorani standard of the Kurdish language, spoken in Iraq, Iran, and the Kurdish diaspora. Borrowing, a form of language contact, occurs on all levels of language structure. LÄS MER

7. 5. On the Good Faith : A Fourfold Discursive Construction of Zoroastrianism in Contemporary Russia

   Författare :Anna Tessmann; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Sammanfattning : Zoroastrianism is ascribed to the teachings of the legendary prophet Zarathustra and originated in ancient times. It was developed within the area populated by the Iranian peoples, and following the Arab conquest, it formed into a diaspora. In modern Russia it has evolved since the endof the Soviet era. LÄS MER