Migration Letters, Volume: 4, No: 2, pp. 171 – 181. October 2007 (ISSN: print: 1741-8984 & online: 1741-8992) www.migrationletters.com Cultural migration: Networks of Iranian Organizations in the Netherlands Matthijs van den Bos and Wahideh Achbari 1 Abstract While distrust and divisiveness amongst Iranians in different diaspora environments have been commonly acknowledged, there are additional indications suggesting that Dutch- Iranian organizations are relatively scarce. In this article, we compare the organizational networks of Dutch-Iranians to those of Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands. The re- sults show that organization density is lower and fragmenta- tion higher for Dutch-Iranians. We explain this by Iranian forms of organization, which have been transplanted to and interact with the diaspora. However, Dutch-Iranians are also exceptionally well integrated in the Dutch society. This puts the relationship between integration and ethnic organi- zation into question. Keywords: Dutch Iranians; organization networks; political culture. Introduction There has been a great deal of debate about Iranian or- ganizations in the Netherlands. Nevertheless, the number and nature of these organizations has never been fully cor- roborated. On the basis of qualified estimates, literature on the Iranian diaspora, and their online networks, it can be presumed that these organizations are scarce and weakly linked (van den Bos 2006). This is highly surprising, since Iranians are exceptionally well integrated in the Dutch soci- 1 Matthijs van den Bos is a lecturer in International Studies at Birk- beck, University of London, and previously worked as a researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. E-mail: altresid-info@yahoo.com Wahideh Achbari is a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh. E-mail: w.achbari@sms.ed.ac.uk.