Afghans in Iran: the state and the working of immigration policies

Siavoshi, Sussan

doi:10.1080/13530194.2022.2113504

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“…Many children who leave school continue learning in local community centres. Refugees in Iran, both documented and undocumented, can benefit from free social services provided by local community centres destined for the vulnerable segments of society, with a particular emphasis on women and children (Siavoshi, 2022). Vulnerabilities are present before young Afghans begin school, and as they progress through the education system, these vulnerabilities become chronic, preventing many from completing their studies.…”

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The Schooling of Forced Immigrant Afghan Youths in Iran: A Study of the Factors Leading to Exclusion

Ghasemi-Tafreshi,

Lafortune

2023

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This article presents the results of a qualitative study which aims to better understand the educational paths of young Afghans in Iran. We conducted individual interviews with five child-parent pairs living in Tehran. The participants were invited to describe their families’ migratory experiences and the youths’ academic backgrounds. The interview data revealed that different intertwining factors led to the exclusion of the youths from school. These factors were tied to immigration policies and the youths’ social, familial, and educational environments. The results also showed that the youths were resilient; despite the many obstacles they had faced, they continued their efforts to achieve their academic and professional goals. This research highlights the challenges of welcoming and integrating young refugees in a non-Western context and contributes to the advancement of knowledge about the phenomenon of school exclusion in developing countries.

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The Schooling of Forced Immigrant Afghan Youths in Iran: A Study of the Factors Leading to Exclusion

Ghasemi-Tafreshi,

Lafortune

2023

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“… 1 During the past four decades, Iran has welcomed and sheltered Afghan immigrants with open arms, placing it among the top ten countries that host refugees worldwide. 2 According to the latest statistics released by the Iranian government, at least 780 thousand Afghans live in Iran as refugees 3 . In addition, it is estimated that around 2.1 million undocumented Afghans and nearly 600 000 Afghan passport holders also reside in Iran.…”

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Comparing the Emergency Care of Iranian and Afghan Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ahmadi Gohari,

Chegeni‬‬,

Mehrolhassani

et al. 2024

Arch Iran Med

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Background: This study investigated the quality of inpatient care provided to Afghan immigrants in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic (February 2019 to March 2021). For this purpose, the services received by Afghan immigrants were compared with those received by Iranian citizens. Methods: Two emergency services (traumas with 8080 victims and 8,686 patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 infection) were taken into consideration. The records of all patients, including the Afghan immigrants, in two referral hospitals in Kerman were reviewed, and the main variables were the length of hospitalization (LoH), intensive care unit (ICU) admission rate, and death rate. Quantile regression, multiple logistic regression, and Cox regression were used to analyze the data. Results: The median and interquartile range of LoH for Afghan and Iranian nationals admitted due to traumas were 3.0±4.0 and 2.0±4.0, respectively (P<0.01). Moreover, the chance of Afghan nationals being admitted to the ICU (38%, odds ratio=1.38; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.12; 1.69) and the hazard of death (60%, hazard rate=1.60; 95% CI=1.03; 2.49) were higher compared to Iranian nationals, which is statistically significant. However, no significant differences were observed between the COVID-19 patients from the two nationalities in terms of the median LoH, the odds of being admitted to the ICU, and the hazard of death due to COVID-19. Conclusion: Afghan nationals admitted to the hospital due to traumas were more likely to be admitted to ICUs or die compared to Iranian citizens. It seems that Afghan patients who had traumas went to the hospitals with more serious injuries. There was no difference between Afghan and Iranian patients in terms of COVID-19 consequences. Following the findings of this study, it seems that justice in treatment has been fully established for Afghan patients in Iran.

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“…Afghans were widely introduced as the main cause of unemployment by formal and informal media, and many other problems were attributed to their presence (Kazemi, 2007). The open-door policy was replaced with a closed-door policy, which deprived many Afghans from their rights, benefits, and facilities, for example, prevention from registering marriages, having autonomous schools, and even leading to expulsion from the country along with extreme violence and even with casualties (Siavoshi, 2022). Even the term "economic migrants" was used instead of the term refugee to justify the ethical and social dimension of the expulsion of refugees (Sadeghi, 2007).…”

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“…Hatred toward the Afghan refugees and attribution of the social, cultural, and economic ravages to them, a lack of awareness about Afghan culture, and resentment of their presence, all strongly featured the Iranian society in their treatment of Afghans. Taken together, these social dynamics lead to the current antagonistic guest/host encounters (Siavoshi, 2022). However, so far, there has been no study that investigates the reasons behind such hostile intergroup relations in Iran.…”

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Formation of hatred emotions toward Afghan refugees in Iran: A grounded theory study.

Ruhani¹,

Keshavarzi²,

Kızık³

et al. 2023

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Most studies on refugee–host relations focus on attitudes toward refugees based on ethnic and religious differences. In the current research, we focus on how negative attitudes toward refugees are formed in a non-Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic context between followers of the same faith. Specifically, we explore the social processes in work to build negative emotions against Afghan refugees in a societal context, Iran, that bears considerable cultural and historical similarities to Afghan society in comparison to the other nations as the host. Adopting the grounded theory approach, 22 in-depth interviews were carried out with Iranians who expressed highly negative emotions toward Afghans in a city, Shiraz, which is home to a large Afghan community. Beyond identifying the process underlying negative emotions, that is, hate, our findings show Afghanophobia as the core reversible social process. Accordingly, despite the counterprocesses, Afghanophobia resists positive changes, particularly during antagonistic intergroup encounters.

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Afghans in Iran: the state and the working of immigration policies

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The Schooling of Forced Immigrant Afghan Youths in Iran: A Study of the Factors Leading to Exclusion

The Schooling of Forced Immigrant Afghan Youths in Iran: A Study of the Factors Leading to Exclusion

Comparing the Emergency Care of Iranian and Afghan Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Formation of hatred emotions toward Afghan refugees in Iran: A grounded theory study.

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