Smugglers, Migrants, and Refugees

The Iran–Iraq Border, 1925–1975

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8969999
AutoresShaherzad Ahmadi (0000-0003-3093-8385, University of St. Thomas - Minnesota, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen52
Número4
Páginas703-718
Fecha de publicación2020-09-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743820000380
OpenAlexW3118003652
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas23

Due to the illegal movement of goods and people, the Khuzistan-Basra frontier, like many other borderlands in the region, represented a liminal space for border dwellers and the Iranian state. Although scholars have written about the migration that was endemic to the early nation-building period, the consequences of this movement in the latter half of the 20th century require further exploration. Well into the 1970s, Iranian migrants and border dwellers complicated citizenship, evinced by the Pahlavi monarchy's failure or refusal to offer them their rights. The Iranian archives prove that, decades into the nation-building project, local dynamics continued to exert tremendous influence on Iranians and even superseded national policies

Archaeology · Citizenship · Economy · Frontier · Geography · Liminality · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · State (computer science · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Turkey's Politics and Society