Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Professor of Sociology, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The interface of culture, politics and agency in global and transnational levels has turned diaspora studies into an attractive and important theoretical and empirical area. Analyzing diaspora requires employing multilayered analytical and conceptual levels and attending to diverse structural, historical and technological contexts. Focusing on cosmopolitanism experience and thought as a core and strategic concept for understanding diasporic identity, the present paper aims to clarify on processes, mechanisms, diversity, obstacles and constraints of cosmopolitan experiences amongst migrants. It is argued that, post-structural cultural theory, post-colonialism and feminism by employing a wide range of concepts, methods and disciplinary premises have big potentials explaining opportunities and limitations with which international migrants encounter.

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