Belonging: The Radicalization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics

Join us for an online conversation with Dr. Sahar Sadeghi on November 15th at 4 PM (PT). 

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Drawing from eighty-eight interviews with first- and second-generation Iranians living in California and Hamburg, Germany, Conditional Belongingilluminates how international events, global political policy, and national social climates influence the extent to which Iranians define themselves as members of their adopted nations. All these factors lead to radically different experiences of belonging, or more specifically “conditional belonging,” for Iranians living in Western nations―while those in America might have situational access to whiteness, this is not always available to Iranians in Germany. The combination of these experiences results in perceptions, narrations, and experiences of what the author calls "being but not belonging." Conditional Belonging is an important and timely book that broadens our understanding of how unpredictable and fluid a sense of belonging to a country can be. 

Dr. Sahar Sadeghi is an associate professor of Sociology at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania.