Journal of Iranian Social Studies

Abstract In addition to the class gap, Iran's border regions also suffer from regional spatial injustice. In the field of social justice and urban spatial justice, a lot of quantitative research has been done in various fields of social sciences, urban planning, etc., but regional spatial justice" has been neglected. This research examines social policies regarding the development of border regions with an emphasis on regional spatial justice with the qualitative method of critical discourse analysis with the Farclough-Laclave and Mouffe approach at the levels of description, interpretation and explanation.
In the post -revolution  5-year development plans, there is no article or note regarding the development of border areas, except, a  part of Article 204 of the Fifth Development Plan, which deals with investment and sustainable livelihood of border dwellers and border industrial towns. Social policies and development plans after the revolution, influenced by layering discourses. in the upper layer, fixed supra-discourse of the government of the Islamic Revolution stands, while in the middle layer, there are variable government discourses, and in the inner layer, there are development discourses. This layering creates a discourse order in which development plans for border areas are articulated as plans emphasizing on regional spatial justice. In these social policies, which are under influence of ideological- discursive formulation, posterior and distributive justice was preferred to a priori and procedural justice. But, the development of Iran's border regions with an emphasis on regional spatial justice, requires a combined approach of procedural-distributive justice and the rule of  an evolutionary discursive  order  instead of   an antagonistic one.
 
 

Abstract The current study focuses on the sociological investigation of the reasons for migration form Abhar-e-Paieen to Australia based on the quantitative method. The studied samples are 100 migrants selected by Snowball sampling method. Theoretical framework of the research includes the Lee’s push-pull factors and the network theory. The results show that most of emigrants are youth (mean of age: 29.7), male (82 percent) with diploma or lower education (85 percent), belong to low and middle socio-economic status (96 percent), and belong to friendship networks (56 percent). Satisfaction of welfare amenities (b = -0.513), friendship network (b = 0.442), kinship network (b = 0.398) and social monitoring (b = 0.325) had the greatest effect on the migration respectively. Finally, origin's pushing factors and the network of migrants in destination have been specified as main factors of migration.