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Cohen, Nir, Daniel Czamanski, and Amir Hefetz. “Internal Migration of Ethno-National Minorities: The Case of Arabs in Israel.” International Migration 53.6 (2015): 74-88. Link to Article
Keyword: internal, migration, ethnno-nationa, minorities, Arabs, Israel
This paper examines the patterns of internal migration by analyzing the propensity to migrate as well as migrants' individual and social characteristics. The authors provide a review on recent geographic literature on internal migration among ethnic and racial minutes; contextualize the group studies providing background information on the politics, socio economic and demographic conditions of Arabs in Israel; discuss attributes that are potential hindering factors to Arab mobility in Israel; and analyst 1995 national census data.
Elias, Nelly, and Adriana Kemp. "The New Second Generation: Non-Jewish Olim. Black Jews and Children of Migrant Workers in Israel." Israel Studies 1 (2010): 73-94. Link to Article
Keyword: second generation, non-Jewish, black jews, children, migrant workers, Israel
This article provides an findings on second generation of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, and children of migrant workers, and it introduces new variables and theoretical angels that have recently emerged within the Israeli context of migration, such as transnationalism and inequalities based on race, nationality, religion and citizenship. The authors argue that by introducing these frameworks, the Israeliresearch agenda on immigrants' second generation should expand beyond replication of the questions applied toward the massive immigration waves of the 1950s.
Geddes, Andrew. "Governing Migration from a Distance: Interactions Between Climate, Migration and Security in the South Mediterranean." European Security 24.3 (2015): 473-490. Link to Article
keyword: climate change, environment, security, South Mediterranean
The Article asses the link between the environment, and the security and migration nexus by assessing the EU's external governance policies in the “South Mediterranean Partner Countries” (SMPCs): Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia. The author argues that, given the data, migration triggered by climate changes interacts with social, economic and political drivers of migration. He further finds that implications of such movements exposes migrants to further risks and more displacement.
Kemp, Adriana and Nelly Kfir. “Mobilizing Migrant Workers’ Rights in ‘Non-Immigration’ Countries: The Politics of Resonance and Migrants’ Rights Activism in Israel and Singapore.” Law and Society Review 50.1 (2016): 82-116. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: migrant workers, rights, non-immigration, immigration, resonance, migrants rights, activism, Israel, Singapore
This article asks: how are the rights of migrant workers mobilized in non-immigration regimes? The author draws on human rights NGOs in Israel and Singapore to study migrants' rights mobilization by expanding cross national analysis beyond the US and west Europe diverting the focus from legal institutions to the places where rights are produced. The study finds that difference in the political regime influence the channels for mobilizing claims but not the cultural politics of resonance that NGOs use when dealing with the tensions between restrictive ethnic policies and the expansion of labor migration.
Minghuan, Li. “Making A Living At The Interface of Legality And Illegality: Chinese Migrant Workers in Israel.” International Migration 2 (2012): 81-99. Link to Article
Keyword: Chinese, migrants, Israel, livelihood, illegality, illegal, legal, status, employment
This paper explores the initiation of the migration of Chinese workers to Israel and its social consequences. The author places this discussion within the context of legal status of the migrants. Research suggests that various factors interact and result in a permissive situation allowing the combination of the illegal but licit to press in transnational labor migration. This study attempts to, more importantly, voice the opinion of local people.
Paz, Alejandro. “Speaking Like A Citizen: Biopolitics And Public Opinion in Recognizing Non-Citizen Children in Israel.” Language And Communication 48 (2016): 18-27. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: citizen, bio politics, public opinion, non-citizen, children, Israel, voice, labor migrants, Israel
This paper examines the public sphere processes through which non-citizen children of labor migrants came to be recognized as Israeli citizens. In 2000 and in response to a public campaign, government resolutions providing Israeli citizenship for young non-citizen. The author draws attention to the mass mediated process from which public opinion emerges to set the boundary between citizen and non-citizen by examining the pragmatic of voicing non-citizen children in public discourse and how legal documentation became the semiotic technology through which public opinion was rationalized bureaucratically.
Riina Isotalo. “Transnational Family Dynamics, Second Generation and the Ties that Flex: Palestinian Migrants between the United States and the West Bank.” Hawwa 6.1 (2008): 102-123. (Summary adapted from resource) Link to Article
Keyword: family, second generation, Palestinian, migrants, US, West Bank, Palestine
This article studies reverse migrants, or return migrants. The author argues tat transnational family ties are a resource for Palestinian migrants of second and third generation; they remain meaningful even when young transmigrant have a conscious oppositional stand in relation to gender roles and family ideology that these ties imply.
Shoshani, Anat, Nakash, Ora, Zubida, Hani and Harper Robin. “School Engagement, Acculturation, and Mental Health Among Migrant Adolescents in Israel.” School Psychology Quarterly 31.2 (2016): 181-197. Link to Article
Keyword: school, education, egganment, acculturation, mental health, migrant, adolescents, Israel
This study explores the role of school engagement and the medication effect of acculturation in predicting 1.5 and second generation migrant adolescents' mental health and risk behaviors. The study is based on 448 7th-10th grade Israeli students. The study found that higher levels of mental health symptoms and risk behaviors among 1.5 and second generation migrant adolescents compared with native born adolescents. Older participants engaged in more risk behavior and females had elevated mental health symptoms.
Victoria Mason. “Children of the “Idea of Palestine”: Negotiating Identity, Belonging and Home in the Palestinian Diaspora.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 28.3 (2007): 271-285. Link to Article
Keyword: Palestine, identity, belonging, home, diaspora, Kuwaiti-Palestinians
This paper examines identity and belonging within Palestinian diaspora. it argues that Palestinian identity if framed not by what generation they belong with respect to migration, but how many generations they have been in exile. The article examines shifts in negotiations of concepts, identity, belonging and home for successive generations of diaspora Palestinians. A case study of a community of resettled Palestinians from Kuwait in Australia is employed to explore of these notions of identity.
Willen, Sarah S. "Toward a Critical Phenomenology of 'Illegality': State Power, Criminalization, and Abjectivity among Undocumented Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv, Israel." International Migration 45.3 (2007): 8-38. Link to Article
Keyword: state power, nation-state, criminalization, undocumented, migrant workers, Tel Aviv, Israel, irregular, irregularity, Israel
This article applies 'critical phenomenological' approach to the study of undocumented migrants of Western African origin and Filipino migrants in Tel Aviv, Israel. It addresses the transformation of their status from being treated as excluded 'others' to being targeted by government sponsored campaigns and deemed criminals. As such, the author highlights the profound implication this transformation has not only on the judicial and sociopolitical dimensions of what it means to be 'illegal' but also its impact on migrants' modes of being-in-the-world.