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1 Department of Social Sciences. Faculty of Humanities and Literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Mashhad. Iran
2 Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Literature. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
3 Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Literature. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad. Iran
Abstract
The migrants' identity challenges at the destination are important because the incomplete integration/suspension and their return/non-return is tied to establishing identity connection with the destination community. The purpose of this study is to analyze and describe the process of the contexts and conditions affecting migration, the migrants' identity challenge and its consequences on integration and the decision to return. In this study, social identity is seen as fluid connections based on contextual evaluations of socially measurable phenomena that are constructed in a comparative context. Accordingly, the identity challenges have been studied in the interpretive paradigm using grounded theory. The data obtained from 19 narrative interviews with Iranian migrants in Germany were analyzed using three-step coding technique in the Maxqda 2020 environment.
The results show that Iranian migrants looking at the West as a reference environment and accordingly rethink the status of the origin society then suffer from identity detachment from the origin. On the other side, the identity challenges at the destination can lead to two different destinies; Doubled paradoxical socialization and perpetual suspension at the destination or successful socialization. In the latter case, the return of migrants to the origin is ruled out, but with the experience of perpetual suspension, migrants either continue their economic life at the destination like a gear without a strong social bonds, or return to the origin under the pressure of their social bonds to the origin.
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