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Waves of the Iranian diaspora
Why and how Iranians left, where they settled, and how each wave built its community.
Waves of the Iranian diaspora
Why and how Iranians left, where they settled, and how each wave built its community.
Level
Foundations
Who it is for
Diaspora members of every generation, researchers and host-country partners.
Format
Self-paced online with family-history exercises.
About 16 hours. Hours are an estimate.
What you will be able to do
- Distinguish the main migration waves and their causes.
- Explain how statistics count, and miss, the diaspora.
- Compare the community's history in at least two countries.
- Record a family migration story with consent.
Modules
- Old dispersions. Parsis, Shirazi traders and Persianate courts.
- Students and professionals before 1979. Study abroad and early communities.
- 1979 and the 1980s. Revolution, war and exile.
- 1990s to 2010s. Family, study and work migration.
- Recent departures. Including the movements of 2022 and after, with sources.
- Counting the diaspora. Measures, sources and why numbers differ.
Assessment
A consent-based family migration interview, kept by the family; a short reflection is shared.
Status
Draft outline for scholarly review. The lessons, readings and questions are in preparation. Completion is recorded; nothing is accredited.
Course code: IDCDC-DIA-01.