| Description |
216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1 Migration, language and identity -- ch. 2 Methodology -- ch. 3 Migration, settlement and acculturation -- ch. 4 Migration and cultural maintenance -- ch. 5 Migration and language maintenance attitude -- ch. 6 Migration and gender role modifications -- ch. 7 Sociolinguistically enhanced acculturation model |
| Summary |
Over recent decades, there has been a great influx of migrants from Iran to various parts of the globe due to various socio-political upheavals. This group has a unique characteristic before migrating to Australia, North America, and Europe. They had lived the first 20 years of their lives in the Western-oriented monarchy of Iran, and then, after the 1978 Islamic Revolution, under the Islamic anti-Western government of the country. This fascinating book investigates changes in the identity of a specific group of these migrants: first generation Iranian Muslim women in Australia. These women have experienced contact-based processes, such as acculturation and adaptation to a new social context. The focus of this study is on investigating modifications in five different aspects of identity: linguistic, cultural, national, gender, and religious. The book examines whether the attitudes of these women are influenced by socio-cultural, language, and time factors, and it identifies the core values that they continue to hold after migration |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [201]-216 |
| Notes |
Also available online |
| Subject |
Iranian diaspora.
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Language maintenance.
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Multiculturalism -- Australia.
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Iranians -- Australia.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Women immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia.
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| ISBN |
9781921867163 (paperback) |
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