Barriers to social integration of young Afghans in Iran

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Emigration is an old international phenomenal that has been done in different forms, goals, reasons and to be continued.Today due to increasing emigration all human societies are faced to challenge.
Immigration in nature have difficult for immigrants and adolescence. Adolescence is important age because of critical period, those difficulties will become more when it linked migration that can caused variety of problems. Since 30 years ago immigrants from Afghanestan came to Iran.
In this study had interviewed 30 teenagers from Afghanestan by grounded theory.
This study was conducted by grounded theory. Data collected with the use of semi-structured interviewed 30 teenagers from Afghanestan and analysis with Strauss and Corbin method to determined the barriers to social integration.
The most important obstacles of afghanestan teenagers were lack of social skills in their relationship, family resistance to change, experience of discrimination, insult, rejection, social labels.
In result the most important barriers to enter into the host society that show these obstacles had made by teenagers, their family, host community immigrants and refugee law.
It suggested to other researchers to use these our result for making plan in Iran.

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Two Quarterly Journal of Contemporary Sociological Research
Volume 3, Issue 5 - Serial Number 5
December 2015
Pages 101-124

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