The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between diaspora and identity with reference to the Iranian diaspora as a case study. Although there has been a recent growth in the study of ideational factors and their effects on sociopolitical issues, identity remains understudied within the mainstream literature on diaspora studies, international relations (IR) and foreign policy analysis (FPA). The aim is to challenge the purely realist and power-based explanations that have dominated the discourse by introducing the notion of identity and exploring it in relation to the Iranian diaspora. The paper’s novel approach lies in its categorisation of Iranian diaspora identity into three main components: nationalist (ancient Iran) tendencies, religious (Islamic-Shiite) tendencies and secular (Western) tendencies. The identity components of Iranians abroad and their interaction with the homeland are relatively comparable to those of their compatriots at home, showing intersecting areas of commonality and difference.

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以伊朗侨民为例探讨侨民与身份的关系

本文的目的是以伊朗侨民为案例研究，探讨侨民与身份之间的关系。尽管最近关于观念因素及其对社会政治问题的影响的研究有所增长，但在关于侨民研究、国际关系的主流文献中，身份仍然没有得到充分研究。红外）和外交政策分析（焦平面阵列）。其目的是通过引入身份概念并探讨其与伊朗侨民的关系，挑战主导话语的纯粹现实主义和基于权力的解释。该论文的新颖方法在于将伊朗侨民身份分为三个主要组成部分：民族主义（古代伊朗）倾向、宗教（伊斯兰什叶派）倾向和世俗（西方）倾向。海外伊朗人的身份构成及其与祖国的互动与国内同胞相对相似，表现出共同性和差异性的交叉领域。