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- Title
Life here beyond now: Chronotopes of the ideal life among Iranian transnationals.
- Authors
Karimzad, Farzad
- Abstract
I address how U.S.-based Iranian transnationals' migration paths affect their (re)-construction of chronotopes of the ideal life. Adopting an ethnographically grounded, discourse-analytic approach, I illustrate how participants with student visas and U.S. Green Cards position themselves differently relative to images of success here [in the U.S.] and lack of success there [in Iran]. I argue that the chronotopes of success here and lack of success there (re)-constructed by non-resident Iranian students are prompted by a large-scale cultural chronotope which pertains to their aspiration to stay in the U.S. This chronotope of 'life beyond' is less about a 'remove from homeland' and more about an ideal future in the host country. Migrants' desires and anxieties, I argue, can determine what receives topical prominence in migration chronotopes - as in the case of Iranian educational migrants whose future positionings make temporality topically more prominent than spatiality.
- Subjects
UNITED States; IRANIANS; CHRONOTOPE; IRANIAN students; TRANSNATIONALISM; DISCOURSE -- Social aspects; IMMIGRANTS; STUDENT passports; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2016, Vol 20, Issue 5, p607
- ISSN
1360-6441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/josl.12211