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1. Introduction -- 2. Cohesion and Conflict in Transnational Merchant Families -- 3. Narrating 'Traditional Iranian Carpet Merchant' -- 4. An Association Between Diversity and Exoticism. - 5. The Overlapping Uncertainties of Film Professionals -- 6. A Festival at the Interstices of Value Regimes -- 7. Conclusion. .

This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants' internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes in ties between professionals – artists and entrepreneurs – since the 1930s, examining migrants' potential to act upon hierarchical structures. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and archival work, the book centers on differentiation, combining a diversity study with a focus on locality, with a transnational migration study, analysing strategies of capital creation and anthropological value theory. The analysis of migrants' agency tackles questions of independence and cooperation in kinship, associations, transnational entrepreneurship and cultural events within the context of the position of Germany and Iran in the global politico-economic landscape. This material will be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, migration, urbanism and Iranian studies, as well as Iranian-Germans and those interested in the entanglement of global and local power relations.

La recherche sur la migration iranienne est en pleine croissance, or elle est limitée de par le focus géographique sur la Californie du Sud et sur les États-Unis, ainsi que par la centralité de l'État-nation comme cadre analytique. Contribuant à la recherche sur les politiques diasporiques iraniennes, le présent article se fonde sur une critique épistémologique afin de proposer une approche comparative centrée sur la relation entre l'intégration locale et l'engagement transnational. S'appuyant sur la recherche quant aux migrations transnationales et aux mouvements sociaux, une ethnographie historique illustrera mon propos portant sur les articulations entre l'engagement politique de trois groupes d'immigrés iraniens basés à Hambourg, à Florence et à Genève, entre 1951 et 2019. Penser l'ancrage territorial de manière comparative représente un effort urgent visant à complexifier les positionnements transnationaux iraniens au-delà du seul paradigme de l'opposition au régime iranien.

Solidarity is a key concept in the literature on humanitarianism and social movements. Public discourse, too, promotes solidarity as a consistent feeling of belonging and empowerment. However, despite its popularity in the social sciences, there is little evidence about the phenomenological experiences underlying the concept. This article aims at moving beyond ethical considerations that underlie the boundaries between more conventional and contentious forms of civil engagement in examining the affective and emotional dimensions of solidarity. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork within deportation protest in Germany, I draw on cultural approaches to social movements and on the anthropology of affect in order to analyse resonance in four affective encounters. I argue that rather than communicating a political opinion, solidarity represents an attitude with which people explain their engagement in certain forms of affective and emotional exchange which are often just as ambiguous, challenging and contradictory as they are comforting and exciting.

This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants' internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes in ties between professionals – artists and entrepreneurs – since the 1930s, examining migrants' potential to act upon hierarchical structures. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and archival work, the book centers on differentiation, combining a diversity study with a focus on locality, with a transnational migration study, analysing strategies of capital creation and anthropological value theory. The analysis of migrants' agency tackles questions of independence and cooperation in kinship, associations, transnational entrepreneurship and cultural events within the context of the position of Germany and Iran in the global politico-economic landscape. This material will be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, migration, urbanism and Iranian studies, as well as Iranian-Germans and those interested in the entanglement of global and local power relations.