Since its rapid growth after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Iranian diaspora has been marked by deep fragmentations along political, ethnic, religious, and generational lines (Mohabbat-Kar 2016, Khosravi 2018, Fozi 2021). Despite 43 years of repeated calls for unity—for example, in response to the Green Movement in 2009—divisions have not only persisted; new ones have emerged as new cohorts have emigrated with different experiences and views of Iranian history, politics, and culture. But the widespread protests of late 2022 that spread from dozens of cities across Iran to over 150 cities in the diaspora have highlighted the broad global support of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Publisher URL: https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/on-unity-fragmentation-in-the-iranian-diaspora
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