From Social Servitude to Self - Certitude: The Social Organization of Resistance of Racialized Diasporic Women

Abstract

The relationship between migration incorporation and resistance is a quintessential problematic replete with controversy. Notwithstanding the voluminous literature on collective or community mobilization, relatively little scholarship, conceptually and substantively, exists that analyzes the individual selfempowerment of racialized diasporic women. This research seeks to bridge this gap by addressing the efficacy of the exigent need for critical analysis of the stages and processes of individual resistance. My
study analyzes the different levels of accommodation / resistance racialized diasporic women especially from Iran use to negotiate various institutions of socializing control. Conceptually, Distance and engagement in terms of deference and defiance are constructed relationally in order to provide a set of innovative perspectives and methodologies in critical diasporic studies.

Keywords Resistance, Migration Incorporation, Racialized Diasporic Women, Post-Colonial Thought, Self- Empowerment