Document Type : Special

Author

• Seyyed Saeed Zahed Zahedani

Associate Professor of Sociology and member of the Research Institute for Transformation in Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiraz University. Iran

Abstract

Marginalization has been one of the most important social ills in our society for more than 80 years, and the measures taken to address it so far have not worked. The purpose of this study is to investigate the roots of this phenomenon in the contemporary history of Iran and its evolution. This article, by referring to historical sources and conducting a documentary research, examines the structural roots of this phenomenon and examines its evolution by referring to official statistics. The theory used is the theory that Zahed introduced in the book Marginalization in 1986 and based on it, he has conducted several researches on migration and migrations leading to marginalization. In this article, it becomes clear that the roots of marginalization are in the way of structuring development in Iran, which began in the middle of the Qajar period and intensified in the second Pahlavi period with American development plans. After the Islamic Revolution, due to not changing the centralized development plans and trying to repair the superstructure of the plans and empower the residents of the marginalized areas, but this phenomenon still remains and its dimensions have been increasing day by day. At the end of the article, the efforts are made to change the direction of development, growth and development and use a decentralized strategy.

Keywords

• Development
• Progress
• Centralism
• Decentralization
• Colonization
• Globalization