Irish and Iranian Immigrants

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This paper studies the experiences of Irish and Iranian immigrants in the United States. While the reasons behind immigration differed from one ethnic group to another, still the problems they faced were similar in nature as American viewed them as a threat to their social and cultural identities. The paper discusses these experiences with reference to two books: Ronald Takaki's "A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America" and Zohreh Sullivan's "Exiled Memories: Stories from the Iranian Diaspora."

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"With America gaining significant economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, its popularity among other nations of the world increased dramatically. There was a wave of immigrants entering the country during that period and especially after the Great wars when there were disturbances in the European countries many people left their homeland and entered United States in search of better jobs and a more prosperous future. But not everyone left their country because there was an economic disaster, several left because for political reasons too. Iranians actually fell under this category. After years of weathering political instability in their own country, many Iranians fled their homeland in search of a safer environment and their destination was western countries. It was during this time that United States saw a sharp rise in the number of Iranian immigrants and since then the number has grown steadily even though Iranians remain the most underrepresented community. Iranians were not only looking for better job opportunities as most other immigrants, they were actually concerned about political and religious restrictions that they had been forced to endure during the Islamic revolution of 1979."

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