Due to the illegal movement of goods and people, the Khuzistan-Basra frontier, like many other borderlands in the region, represented a liminal space for border dwellers and the Iranian state. Although scholars have written about the migration that was endemic to the early nation-building period, the consequences of this movement in the latter half of the 20th century require further exploration. Well into the 1970s, Iranian migrants and border dwellers complicated citizenship, evinced by the Pahlavi monarchy's failure or refusal to offer them their rights. The Iranian archives prove that, decades into the nation-building project, local dynamics continued to exert tremendous influence on Iranians and even superseded national policies.
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Ahmadi, S. (2020, November 1). Smugglers, Migrants, and Refugees: The Iran-Iraq Border, 1925-1975. International Journal of Middle East Studies. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743820000380
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