‘Inherited Nostalgia’ Among Second-Generation Iranian Americans: A Case Study at a Southern California University

Gambling in the Iranian-American Community and an Assessment of Motives: A Case Study

“…Many Iranian-Americans are conscious of their culture’s aggregate financial, educational, and professional success (Bozorgmehr and Douglas 2011). They may feel nostalgia about previous success or envy of the success of their peers (Daha 2011; Maghbouleh 2010; Mobasher 2006; Mostofi 2003; Naficy 1993). The potentially quick and substantial earnings from gambling wins are appealing to this class, and provide an opportunity for gamblers to experience success and accomplishment.…”

Creating transregional collective nostalgia: the organising role of Catholic parishes among Louisiana migrants in Great Migration-era Los Angeles

“…Second, although the current study's results focus on a unique population of Louisianans who settled in Los Angeles during the Great Migration, the findings extend the literature on transnational migrants' resettlement and ongoing homeland ties to internal migration by developing and illustrating the concept of transregional collective nostalgia (Levitt 2003(Levitt , 2007Levitt and Glick Schiller 2004;Maghbouleh 2010;Tweed 1997;Wolf 2002). Just as transnationalism studies remind scholars to focus on home regions in research on international migration, the present results highlight the importance of considering home regions in research on internal migration.…”

“…A transregional collective nostalgia is passed between generations of internal migrants via interactions within religious institutions in migrant enclaves. By pairing the transregional with collective nostalgia, I suggest an extension of transnational collective nostalgia foreshadowed but not explicitly named (Levitt and Glick Schiller 2004;Maghbouleh 2010;Tweed 1997;Whitling 2010;Wolf 2002). To my knowledge, the concept of transregional collective nostalgia has not been applied in this way or in the U.S. context as it is here.…”

“…Davis 1979;Glick Schiller 2004, 1010;Maghbouleh 2010;Wilson 2005;Wolf 2002;Zerubavel 1996Zerubavel , 1997. Collective nostalgia is passed through the 'emotional transnationalism' of mixed-generation households, as well as food, family get-togethers, and visits home (Wolf 2002, 285).…”

Kurdish Matters: Signaling New Epistemologies of Difference

“…We must, for example, investigate if earlier generations of Kurds came to the United States pre-1978 through dominant national classifications as "Turks," "Iraqis," "Iranians," and "Syrians" (Bakalian & Bozorgmehr, 2009;Gualtieri, 2009;Maghbouleh, 2017Maghbouleh, , 2013. Even the literature on Middle Eastern America, thanks to the pioneering work of Alexi Naff (1998Naff ( , 1993, is being pushed beyond the Lebanese and Syrian communities with the nuanced work of Neda Maghbouleh (2017Maghbouleh ( , 2013Maghbouleh ( , 2010 Cainkar (2009), Pauline Homsi Vinson (2008), Sunaina Maira (2017), and Umayyah Cable (2013). Similarly, we aim to push the agenda on Kurdish diasporic studies with the aim to disrupt any notions of a canon while hoping to use the work on diasporas as a way to trouble dominant epistemologies and forge new kinds of critique.…”