Internal Diversity : : Iranian Germans Between Local Boundaries and Transnational Capital.

• Superior document: Global Diversities Series
• Author: Moghaddari, Sonja.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Global Diversities Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)

Table of Contents

Internal Diversity Iranian Germans Between Local Boundaries and Transnational Capital -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Internal Diversity -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- Internal Diversity -- Transnational Social Fields -- Evaluation and Capital Creation Through Boundary Work -- Iranian Migration to Hamburg -- Fieldwork -- The Structure of This Book -- References -- 2: Cohesion and Conflict in Transnational Merchant Families -- Bazaris Meet Kaufmänner: Conditions of Early Iranian Mercantile Migration -- Pioneers in Flexible Capital Creation -- German Alliances? -- Why Ali and Jalal Were Not Friends -- Brotherly Ties Between Solidarity and Rivalry -- The (Image of the) Nuclear Family -- Dissent, Death, Disruptions -- Descendants' Positioning Toward Iranians Today -- References -- 3: Narrating "Traditional Iranian Carpet Merchants" -- The Ethnographic Frame -- A Golden Age? -- The Iranian Government, the Flüchtling, and Illicit Business Practices -- Collectively Narrating Through the Crisis -- References -- 4: An Association Between Diversity and Exoticism -- New Beginnings in Old Familiarity -- A Honari Imaginary -- A Public Negotiation of the Limits to Identifications -- The Conflict -- Collective Identifications Through Inclusion and Exclusion -- Staging "Iranianness in Hamburg" -- Epilogue -- References -- 5: The Overlapping Uncertainties of Film Professionals -- The Social Fields of Film Professionals -- Hushang, Between Contesting and Conforming to Assimilation -- Zian: What Barriers? -- Milad, and the Protection of Façades -- References -- 6: A Festival at the Interstices of Value Systems -- The Festival's Concept -- Introducing the Organizer -- Fundraising Through Sameness and Difference -- Discrepant Reactions: Competing Systems of Value -- The Color Festival: Success or Failure? -- References -- 7: Conclusion.

Internal Diversity -- Creating Capital Across Social Fields -- Politics of Value and Potential for Action -- Iranian-Germans? -- References -- Index.