Social Exclusion of the Iranian Women Married to Foreign Nationals (Iraqi and Afghan) and its Related Social Factors

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate professor of Alzahra university, Email: Maazadeh@gmail.com

2 MA in sociology, Email: Samozaffari@yahoo.com

Abstract

This study examines the social factors affecting social exclusion of the Iranian women married to foreign nationals (Iraqi and Afghan). The research‘s model consists of following variables:
ex-exclusions factors, gender exclusion, exclusion factors of the transition period, feeling of inequality and feeling of Stigma. These are affecting factors with various dimensions of social exclusion of these women.
The Method Is Survey, Statistical Populations Are women married to foreign nationals living in Neyshabur. Sampling Size Is 182 women and Sampling Method Is Convenience one.
Based on the finding, the feeling of stigma, the feeling of inequality, factors of the transitions period, ex-Exclusion factors and gender exclusion are effective in explaining variations in exclusion of these women.
Multiple regression analysis showed that only the sexual exclusion factor did not explain the exclusion albeit, four other factors explain 37 percent of the variations in exclusion. 
Analysis of theoretical model showed that the feeling of Stigma is the most important and the strongest variable explaining the rejection of women married to foreign nationals.

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