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Gender, Group Solidarity, Group Conflict, and Iranian-American Civic Engagement
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Gender, Group Solidarity, Group Conflict, and Iranian-American Civic Engagement
Yazar:
Emami, Jessica, author. (orcid)0000-0002-9748-6849
ISBN:
9780438116795
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1 electronic resource (1 page)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Shannon N. Davis Committee members: Rutlege M. Dennis; Dae Young Kim.
Özet:
At nearly one-half million, Iranian Americans are the largest diasporic community outside of Iran. Most came to the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s as university students or refugees fleeing Iran following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and during the Iran-Iraq war. Being from a Muslim country that circumscribes women's participation in the public sphere, it is facile to assume that Iranian American women would have low civic and political engagement. This first national-level quantitative sociological study of Iranian American civic engagement analyzes data from 352 Iranian American men and women who responded to the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans' 2008 National Survey of Iranian Americans. Using correlation, negative binomial regression, and binary logistic regression, the data reveals that, although Iranian American women excelled at joining interest groups, Iranian American men and women mobilized nearly equally in most other acts of civic engagement. Iranian Americans are most mobilized by the experience of discrimination due to ethnicity or national origin, and a belief that ethnic heritage is somewhat important in defining identity. However, those who believed ethnic heritage was very important had lower odds of civic engagement. The data supports the conclusion that Iranian American men and women who identify with their ethnic heritage but also incorporate U.S. culture have the greatest civic engagement and political participation.
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School code: 0883
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