the overlapping uncertainties of film professionals

Returning to an interpersonal micro-perspective, this chapter centers on the development of ties between the three film professionals Hushang, Kian, and Milad and examines the way they try to generate capital in German and Iranian local and transnational professional social fields. Building on previous research on social capital and the film business, the analysis brings the difficulties of interdependence in internal relations to the forefront. Furthermore, I highlight how systems of value prevailing in different social fields may both intersect and overlap, thus accounting for the fact that agency in different social fields is interconnected. The ways the three men deal with uncertainties deriving from migration and the job market illustrates that people with similar resources may still find very different ways of dealing with barriers to inclusion

an association between diversity and exoticism

Focusing on contemporary Iranian artists and intellectuals, I examine the creation of collective identifications from an internal perspective. Drawing on research on migrant associations and ethnic and racial boundaries in Germany, the ethnographic account alternates between internal relations, member's participation in the transnational field of Iranian artists, and representative activities in the German public sphere. It explains how the members' unequal resources and varying politics of value caused a shift in the association's system of value. From a critique of assimilationism and the promotion of the value of diversity, the group came to largely comply with the system of value prevailing in the German public sphere, sustained by its intersection with the one that shapes the transnational social field of Iranian artists

Digital Food and foodways. How online food practices and narratives shape the Italian diaspora

The article discusses the role of online food practices and narratives in the formation of transnational identities and communities. Data has been collected in the framework of a doctoral research project undertaken by the author between 2009 and 2012 with a follow-up in 2014. The working hypothesis of this article is that the way Italians talk about food online and offline, the importance they give to ‘authentic’ food, and the way they share their love for Italian food with other members of the same diaspora reveal original insights into migrants’ personal and collective identities, their sense of belonging to the transnational community and processes of adjustment to a new place. Findings suggest that online culinary narratives and practices shape the Italian diaspora in unique ways, through the development of forms of virtual commensality and online mealtime socialization on Skype and by affecting intra and out-group relationships, thus working as elements of cultural identification and differentiation

Changing geographies of immigration and religion in the U.S. south

cited By 1This chapter examines the internal workings of faith communities in the U.S. South and how they are deeply enmeshed in every-day productions and negotiations of societal membership, citizenship rights, and immigrant integration. We begin with a brief overview of recent immigration and the ways it has complicated the region?s social and political landscape in the region. We then discuss the diversity of immigrant faith communities and the very different ways that established faith communities have tried to incorporate immigrants. Drawing on our research on faith communities in Charlotte, NC, Greenville-Spartanburg, SC, and Atlanta, GA we show how faith communities, both Christian and non-Christian, are producing diverse conceptions of social difference and societal membership. Our aim is to convey how ideas about citizenship are molded in faith-community contexts and the ways that these processes are shaped by particular regional histories

Changing geographies of immigration and religion in the U.S. south

cited By 1This chapter examines the internal workings of faith communities in the U.S. South and how they are deeply enmeshed in every-day productions and negotiations of societal membership, citizenship rights, and immigrant integration. We begin with a brief overview of recent immigration and the ways it has complicated the region?s social and political landscape in the region. We then discuss the diversity of immigrant faith communities and the very different ways that established faith communities have tried to incorporate immigrants. Drawing on our research on faith communities in Charlotte, NC, Greenville-Spartanburg, SC, and Atlanta, GA we show how faith communities, both Christian and non-Christian, are producing diverse conceptions of social difference and societal membership. Our aim is to convey how ideas about citizenship are molded in faith-community contexts and the ways that these processes are shaped by particular regional histories