ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the attempt to grasp the interaction between Iran at home and Iran abroad on the basis of the border regions of the Persian Gulf and Khorasan, by approaching the issue from three main angles. First, the recomposition of the national space that this interaction entails. Then the social reconstruction from which it is inseparable and which promotes a new reflexivity of Iranian society upon itself and, finally, the redefinition of public policies to which it leads the political or administrative authorities, given the overlap between their action and transnational social practices. The 1917 Islamic revolution entailed the departure of half a million Muslims from Central Asia to Afghanistan. Several thousands of Uzbeks thus followed the emir of Bukhara to Kabul in 1921, and in the 1930s, Soviet Turkmens joined their fellow countrymen, who had been given land by Abdurrahman in the 1880s.
