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Mohammad Ali Chaichian is the professor emeritus of Sociology at Mount Mercy University. He received his PhD in Sociology from Michigan State University as well as two masters degrees in architecture and urban planning from the University of Tehran and University of Michigan, respectively. A native of Iran, in addition to practicing architecture in Iran for ten years, he has more than forty years of research and teaching experience in the USA. His areas of expertise and interest are urban sociology, critical analysis of architectural design and the built environment, global political economy, international migration, and racial/ethnic inequalities. He has authored three books, White Racism on the Western Urban Frontier: Dynamics of Race and Class in Dubuque, Iowa (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2006); Town and Country in the Middle East: Iran and Egypt in the Transition to Globalization (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009); and Empires and Walls: Globalization, Migration, and Colonial Domination (Leiden: Brill/Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014 & 2015); and has published numerous scholarly articles related to above-indicated subject matters.
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