From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Iranians/Minoo Moallem
A comprehensive history of Iran from classical Persian times to the present is The Cambridge History of Iran, 7 vols. (Cambridge, U.K., 1991), while Shaul Bakhash, The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution (1986), provides a useful overview of recent Iranian history.
There are no comprehensive studies of Iranian immigration to Canada or of the settlement of Iranians in the country. Y. Tareq Ismael, Canadian Arab Relations: Policy and Perspectives (Ottawa, 1984), is a generally useful overview which includes references to Iranians. The brief article “Iran,” in Cultural Profiles, published by the Cross Cultural Learner Centre (London, Ont., 1986), is of some use for an understanding of the group in Ontario.
An anthology that focuses on the experiences of Iranian refugees and exiles since the revolution in 1979 in Turkey, Germany, France, the United States, and Canada is Asghar Fathi, ed., Iranian Refugees and Exiles since Khomeini (Costa Mesa, Calif., 1991). This work includes an article by Minoo Moallem, “Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Gender Relations among Iranians in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,” which examines the experience of immigrant Iranian entrepreneurs in Montreal with specific reference to gender and ethnicity. The same author’s Ph.D. thesis, “Pluralité des rapports sociaux: similarité et différence. Le cas des Iraniennes et Iraniens au Québec” (Université de Montréal, 1989), describes the experiences of Iranian male and female immigrants in Montreal, while her “Gender, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship,” Quarterly Journal of Ideology, vol.6, nos.1-2 (1993), 43–69, analyses the relationships between ethnic entrepreneurship and gender relations.
M. Fathali Moghaddam, Donald M. Taylor, and Richard N. Lalond, Iranian Cultural Organizations: An Assessment of Services Offered and Community Needs (Montreal, 1986), also focuses on Iranian Canadians in Montreal. Fathali M. Moghaddam, “Individual and Collective Integration Strategies among Iranians in Canada,” International Journal of Psychology,vol.22 (1987), 301–14, is an effort to understand the settlement process. Parvin Tasmani, “Immigration, adaptation et problèmes de santé mentale chez les femmes professionnelles d’origine iranienne au Québec” (M.Sc. thesis, University of Montreal, 1986), is concerned with the settlement of Iranian women. The same subject is addressed by Afsaneh Sabet-Esfahani in “The Experience of Immigration: The Case of Iranian Women” (M.A. thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988).
