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Building on the central questions posed in the Introduction, this chapter presents a discussion of the theories of migration and media that are essential to developing an understanding of contemporary Iranian American identity formation that goes beyond the concept of exile. It makes a case for using a transnational theoretical frame for studying the identity formation processes that implicate the Iranian American second generation within border-crossing social contexts and local interconnections, rather than using the nation as a unit of analysis. The chapter also points out the lack in migration studies—and second-generation studies more specifically—when it comes to understanding the role of emergent media technologies in the formation of diasporic identifications. In addressing this lack, it outlines what media anthropological approaches offer for understanding digitally mediated identity formation processes, thus presenting the theoretical and methodological rationale that underpins the ethnographic analysis presented in the chapters that follow.

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  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-47625-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-47626-1

  • eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)

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