Ahmad Karimi
University of Alberta
9 Papers
30 Citations
Ahmad Karimi is an academic researcher from University of Alberta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human sexuality & Refugee. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 9 publications.
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Papers
Dangerous positions: Male homosexuality in the new penal code of Iran:
Ahmad Karimi,Zohreh Bayatrizi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the sociology of punishment and the critiques of cultural determinism to argue that the difference between who has what position in the same-sex sexual act can be life and death.
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African immigrant women’s transition and integration into Canadian society: expectations, stressors, and tensions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute to an emergent body of research that explores African immigrant women's experiences in Western destination countries, and foreground these immigrant women’s voices in this research.
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Hamjensgara belongs to family; exclusion and inclusion of male homosexuality in relation to family structure in Iran
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at current struggles of Iranian gay men to form new sexual identities that are directly tied to family structure and based on values of emotional bond and commitment to a same-sex partner, and clarify how Iranian gays, in a way different from that of Western LGBT activists, are trying to portray a positive image of their sexuality in relation to local family standards so they can be integrated into the Iranian family structure.
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Gender identity and integration: second-generation Somali immigrants navigating gender in Canada
TL;DR: This article conducted interviews with 256 second-generation immigrants and found that normative Islamic perspectives on gender are at odds with the Western values and act as barriers to immigrant integration, and many right-leaning politicians claim that normative Islam views on gender differ from those of Western values.
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