Absorption of immigrants to Israel: On remedies for market and policy myopia

Geva‐May, Iris; Dean, James W.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6688(199823)17:4<697::aid-pam6>3.0.co;2-i

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“…In addition, comparison between different countries' approaches could benefit illuminate academic research and aid decision making in these countries (MacRae, 1998). In likely absorption circumstances ofhigh immigrant human capital, limited public budgets and limited local markets where market failure and professional unor under-employment occw" (Geva- May and Dean, 1998), the feasibilityofthere-trainingpoli~analyzedinthisstudyiShighlyrelevant. Proof of feasibility also should allow for transfer, borrowing and adaptation in other immigration contexts.…”

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Policy Feasibility and Immigrant Absorbtion in a Mass Immigration Context:

Geva‐May

1998

Review of Policy Research

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The issue of‐whether, and to what extent, immigrants should be assisted in the integration process by government‐initiated programs has been a long‐standing policy concern in countries exposed to waves of immigration. In Israel, where the raison d'tre of the state is to be a homeland for any person of the Jewish tradition who wishes to join Israeli society, issues of assistance to immigrants are ascribed particular importance. This study evaluated the re‐training policy of the Israeli government for Soviet immigrant scientists as an immediately available employment and integration solution. The policy was initiated following the mass immigration from the former USSR during 1989–1991. The scientists were re‐trained to teach science in high‐schools. The investigation focuses on the impact of this policy as an immediate absorption solution, the impact of retraining offered by universities on employment and professional performance, and the benefit to the host educational system. Technical feasibility and its role in decision making will be discussed. The degree of feasibility of this policy and the re‐training models identified in this study may point to a valid policy approach in countries where major social changes, such as immigration or recession, occur. Thus the study and its findings are important to other immigration contexts in that it allows for policy transfer, borrowing and adaptation based on proof of policy feasibility.

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Policy Feasibility and Immigrant Absorbtion in a Mass Immigration Context:

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1998

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“…Although in principle such access is embedded in the Free Trade Agreement of 1989, the ability of Canadians to offer services to the US is limited in practice by restrictions on professional mobility and work permits, both temporary and permanent. Just as immigrant absorption in Israel calls for coordination among government agencies at the economic, social, and cultural levels (Geva-May and Dean, 1998), it might, in the North American context, call for cross-border coordination between governments. Metropolises such as Vancouver and Toronto recognize the major demographic, cultural, and socio-economic changes constantly occurring in their neighbourhoods due to dense immigrant settlement there.…”

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“…As in Central Europe, particularly Germany, in Israel the unexpectedly high human quality of immigration from FSU between 1989 and 1995, consisting mainly of academics, posed employment problems, but it also reinforced the state's human capital and its quality. Notions such as science and technology farms or "incubators", retraining of scientists as teachers, assistance in entrepreneurship, etc., or ideas sought by public servants, the Bank of Israel, the judiciary, and scholars, like the export of human capital, entrepreneurial guidance, and greater coordination between ministries and agencies (Geva-May and Dean, 1998) can maximize the economic utility of immigration. A number of such initiatives offering incentives to employers affected demand in the Israeli market in areas not particularly sought after before the 1990s immigration.…”

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“…This article accepts the fundamental principle that information transfer and lesson drawing should be handled in policy making within and around a systematic process of analysis and alternative policy selection. As problems of immigrant absorption range universally over the same topical spectrum, what "has worked", what is feasible, and what may be adapted are highly relevant (Geva-May and Dean, 1998). Transfer, lesson drawing, borrowing, pinching, and adaptation of feasible policy alternatives from other immigration contexts serve to cope with these challenges.…”

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On Impacts of Comparative Policy Analysis. Immigration to Israel:What other Countries can Learn

Geva‐May

2000

International Migration

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Israel is a country of immigrants. Between 1948 and 1997 more than three‐quarters of its population entered the country from abroad. Particularly marked within this period was an increase of 20 per cent between 1989 and 1996 following the great wave of immigration from former USSR. Israel's current absorption problems are a stark example of what is increasingly to be faced, for instance, by countries in South East Asia, North America, and Europe as cross‐border migration becomes easier or a matter of survival. Israel's experience with immigration waves during the last fifty years and its policies of immigration absorption, as well as the components of this policy agenda, should be relevant for other countries. This article argues that comparative policy studies based on individualnational cases should be regarded as naturally occurring experiments fromwhich broader cross‐national generalizations can be made. Their importancelies in their scope and in their ability to provide useful information that hastransnational impacts on policy problems and on policy solutions.

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Absorption of immigrants to Israel: On remedies for market and policy myopia

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