Immigrant Reserchers

Yesterday I encountered a horrible point in the book I was reading:
"Researchers studying the economically and politically powerful, women studying men, people of color studying whites… all can be in situation in which their ability to control the interaction is limited, particularly when it is ace-to-face."
In this part, the author was talking about researcher's privilages which enable her to produce "knowledge"! (I will discuss about it in another post)
But what was terrible to me about this quotation is that I, as a Middle Eastern female researcher, don't have sufficient privilage for researching in the West! Isn't it disgusting?! When I contemplate and think more about this issue, remember my Asian classmates in my Canadian university. All Asian, though they are the best in the university, are working on Asian cultures. I mean that all of them are researching on their country or if they are so intellectual, they are working on immigration and diaspora. I know some part of this matter is natural and people's research interests are directly related to the life experience and those people have some kind of experiences which can help them to research on topics as "insider" not "outsider" but I think it is not all the issue... Unfortunately, I should confess that the other side of the coin is that it is resulted from DISABILITY not lacking of interests in other areas of research. Regardless of which field of social science these students are studying, all prefer to research on mentioned topics. I mean that it is happening in all branches of social sciences. I do know that these kinds of research topics are interesting for the West and they welcome these students and their topics but I don't like this kind of welcome! I am sure the in the back of West's researchers' mind is that we have not privilage to work on topic which they are working. It's better we work on our own topics and leave the new challenging research topics for them who are Western white privilaged researchers!
I am upset because I am aware that the circle of my choice in research areas is very limited. If I was free enough to choose whatever I want to research on, maybe I would select immigiration, Iran or diaspora but this situation is not desirable. This feeling that I OUGHT TO WORK these fields of research instead of CHOOSE to work on them, bothers me so much and also in all moments remind me that I, as a Middle Eastern female researcher, regardless of my research abilities, don't have a privilage as a Western white English speaker researcher... Terrible, horrible, dreadfull, disperating....