Identity, Language and Culture in Diaspora: A study of Iranian Female Migrants in Australia
Identity, Language
and Culture in Diaspora
A study of Iranian Female Migrants in Australia
Maryam Jamarani
In a new socio-cultural environment, migrant identities are constantly repositioned. Exploration of this experience aids understanding of the fluid and flexible nature of identity itself. In Identity, Language and Culture in Diaspora, Maryam Jamarani deals with ‘diasporic identities’ and advances a paradigm in which ‘becoming’,
rather than ‘being’, is emphasised.
Jamarani investigates changes in the identity of first generation Iranian Muslim women in Australia. Before migrating to Australia most of this group spent the first twenty years of their lives in the Western-oriented monarchy of Iran and then, after the 1978 Islamic Revolution, lived under the Islamic anti-Western government of the country.
What effects have this distinctive experience had on the linguistic, cultural,
national, gender and religious identity of individuals within this grouping?
Jamarani aims to identify the core values that these women continue to hold
after migration, as well as areas where their values have changed.
Engaging with contemporary theories of acculturation, Jamarani proposes a novel, sociolinguistically enhanced acculturation model, emphasising the significance of the fluid and flexible nature of identity, which holds out the promise of shedding new light on the acculturation process of migrants in general.
This book will be of interest to scholars around the world researching and teaching in the areas of identity, language, culture, gender and migration.
‘presents in a clear and accessible fashion research which has made a significant sociolinguistic contribution to acculturation theory, and it increases our knowledge of migration stories specific to the Iranian community in Australia.’— Australian Journal of Linguistics
Publisher:Monash University Publishing
Publication date: May 2012
Format: Paperback
Pages: xx + 224 pages
Dimensions: 153mm wide by 234mm high
Weight: 0.45kg
ISBN 978-1-921867-16-3(paperback)
ISBN 978-1-921867-17-0 (online)
Note: this book will soon be available to read as a free download in HTML format, fromhttp://www.publishing.monash.edu/books/ilcd.html.
ISBN | 9781921867163 |
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Publisher Name | Monash University Publishing |
Item Dimensions | 153mm wide by 234mm high |
Pages | 224 |
Contact Name | Monash Publishing |
Contact Email | publishing@monash.edu |