For better, for worse: Iranian women migrants’ marriages post migration

This study investigates whether changes of circumstances and contexts affect individuals’ patterns of interaction with their spouse. We focus on the impact of migration on the marriages of women of Iranian backgrounds who migrated to Australia after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The results of this study indicate that after migration the women gained new societal rights. Having rights empowered the women in their relationship with their partners, enabling them to negotiate changes to the relationship that were not available to them in Iran.