Intersectionality, Class and Migration

Series Introduction-Nira Yuval-Davis

1. Class, intersectionality and Iranian diaspora

1.1 Iranian women's employment and class

1.2 Iranian migrants and social class

1.3 Making sense of class in migration: co-constructing narratives

1.4 Iranian parties, concerts and doctors' hubs

1.5 Religion, an absent theme in class stories

1.6 Outline of the book

2. Intersectionality and Translocational Class

2.1 Classic literature of class and the question of intersectionality

2.1.1Marxism and class

2.1.2 Status and class

2.1.3 The cultural turn to class

2.2 Intersectionality and the treatment of class 2.2.1 Situated intersectionality

2.2.2 Power relations and intersectionality

2.2.3 Privileged position and intersectionality

2.3 Identity and translocational positionality

2.3.1 Translocational class

2.4 Conclusion

3. Classed and Gendered Growing up

3.1 Educational surveillance

3.1.1 Creating ambition: Passing on class to the girls

3.1.2 Mothers and class surveillance

3.1.3 Lack of choice or destined pathways?

3.1.4 Governing the ambition

3.2 Normalisation of the pathways

3.2.1 Lack of ambition as deviant

3.2.2 Not discussing class to construct classed identity

3.2.3 Embarrassment and normalisation

3.2.4 Westernisation as a 'normal' pathway

3.3 The making of a moral self 3.3.1 Respect

3.4 Conclusion

4. Classed Place-making

4.1 Diasporic spaces

4.2 Countries

4.3 Schools

4.4 Neighbourhoods

4.5 Spatial class: a conclusion

5. Classed Performing

5.1 Class-coded acts

5.1.1 Class and performance: a delicate relationship

5.1.2 Performing class-coded acts <5.2 Feminine doctors:

Mastoureh Fathi is Lecturer in Sociology at Bournemouth University, UK. She has published on the topics of belonging, gender, education and social class among migrants. She is a narrative researcher with an interest in Muslim migrants, and their everyday experiences of life in Western countries. Her current research looks at the intersection of religion, gender and parenting.