Higher Education and the Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel

Arar, Khalid; Haj-Yehia, Kussai

doi:10.1057/9781137533425

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“…While Israeli-Palestinian intra-immigration to Jewish and mixed towns is diverse (Yacobi, 2009), the more significant groups are students and nuclear families (Masry-Herzallah & Razin, 2014). These movements take place due to various push and pull factors: on one hand, shortage of land, insufficient housing and lack of job opportunities in Arab villages and towns (Al-Haj, 2012); on the other hand, relocation for purposes of higher education and search of a higher quality of life (Arar & Haj-Yehia, 2016), as well as liberation from a confining traditional and gendered order (Herzog, 2007).…”

Section: Palestinian Migration To Jewish Localitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The urban geopolitics of neighboring: conflict, encounter and class in Jerusalem’s settlement/neighborhood

Shtern

Yacobi

2018

Urban Geography

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This article examines a unique, yet paradigmatic, case study of a colonial neighborhood in East Jerusalem that is undergoing a significant demographic transformation. 1 The French Hill neighborhood, built in 1971, was one of the first settlements in East Jerusalem. Initially, it was populated primarily by upper-middle class secular-Jewish residents. This group has been steadily diminishing as two other distinct new groups moved into the neighborhood: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Palestinians. This volatile social mix has caused intense inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic collisions. Based on qualitative and quantitative studies, we argue that the juxtaposition of colonial and neoliberal logics of space reveals a shared, yet fragile, middle-class identity. We suggest that this new geopolitical space of neighboring calls for a discussion of political conflict, housing and current colonial conditions that brings class back to our understanding of the production of contested space. (ibid, table III/5). Correspondingly, within the Jewish population, the Haredi groups has grown substantially and become the largest Jewish sub-community in the city (ibid, III/19). These changes have transformed the demographic characteristics of several Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, including FH. While the veteran residents have emigrated from the neighborhood, middle class Palestinians, especially those with Israeli citizenship, 5 and Haredi Jews have been drawn to FH due to low housing prices, good infrastructure and services, as well as proximity to, respectively, Palestinian and Jewish Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) parts of the city. FH became the only residential area in Jerusalem which is cohabited by these three distinct and, until recently, highly segregated communities of the city, namely secular Jews, Haredi Jews and Palestinians (Rosen & Shlay, 2014). Another phenomenon has simultaneously contributed to the changes in the neighborhood: Palestinians from the neighboring villages in East Jerusalem-Issawiya, a-Tur and Shuafat began to make frequent use of the playgrounds, amenities and commercial center in FH (Yacobi & Pullan, 2014). This was observed in recent years as well in some other Jewish areas in East and West Jerusalem (Shtern, 2016; Nolte & Yacobi, 2015; Rokem & Vaughan, 2017). The growing presence of both Haredi and Palestinian residents and transients alike has provoked considerable opposition among the long-term residents of FH. Driven by the fear of demographic transition, local 5 Palestinian citizens of Israel are graduates of the Israeli educational system; thus, they speak very good

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Section: Palestinian Migration To Jewish Localitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The urban geopolitics of neighboring: conflict, encounter and class in Jerusalem’s settlement/neighborhood

Shtern

Yacobi

2018

Urban Geography

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“…Within a decade, and especially from 1982-1993, the number of students in universities increased by 50%, and in colleges by 700%. As a result, the percentage of Arab students in universities increased from 2.9% in the 1970s to 6.7% in the mid-1980s (Arar, 2012;A'li, 2013;Haj-yehia & Arar, 2014;Arar & Haj-yehia, 2016).…”

Section: Higher Education Among the Arab Citizens Of Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inequality in the Ivory Tower: Sub-Representation of Arab Citizensin Israeli Universities

Ali¹

2017

JCRS

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Research on minority representation in academia has not receive serious scholarly attention until recently, apparently due to the belief that academia is a paragon of liberalism, openness and equal opportunity, however, the few studies that were conducted have completely contradicted this assumption. This paper deals with the representation of Arab citizens in Israel's academia, universities in particular. The Study 1 explores the representation/sub-representation of Arabcitizens in three main areas: The percentage of Arab students (from the BA to the Doctoral level); representation in faculties; and representation on permanent administrative staff. The paper offers up-to-date and precise data, which we received from the academic institutions themselves, and tries to lay the infrastructure for a broader and more in-depth study, which will deal with the barriers facing Arab citizens in Israeli universities.

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“…Since the 1970s, access to higher education among Israel’s Palestinian minority has improved markedly. Arar and Haj-Yehia (2011) argued that the effects of this development are particularly evident among excluded groups within Palestinian society that were previously denied such opportunities, including rural residents and women. Furthermore, over the past decade, statistics have shown a significant increase in the education and integration of Palestinian-Israelis in various types of occupations.…”

Section: Palestinians Who Are Israeli Citizens—higher Education and Ementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Employment options in Arab localities are declining in proportion to the rising number of Palestinian-Israeli men and women with academic qualifications (Arar and Haj-Yehia 2011; Liss-Ginsburg 2013). Among those with academic professions, nearly half work in education, as compared with 20 percent of Jews.…”

Section: Palestinians Who Are Israeli Citizens—higher Education and Ementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kanaaneh (2007) argued that academic culture exerts a significant personal, social, ethical, and political influence on Palestinian-Israeli students, serving as a kind of definitive bridge to the future for them. Similarly, Arar and Haj-Yehia (2011) claimed that although Palestinian-Israeli academics experience their own social changes, they reflect the status of all Palestinian society in Israel as an integral part of the Israeli social fabric. Alongside this complex identity, the students also face an exclusionary policy that does not enable them to integrate into the Israeli public sphere.…”

Section: Palestinians Who Are Israeli Citizens—higher Education and Ementioning

confidence: 99%

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“. . . In the Beginning I Was Frightened, Because Jews and Arabs Were Living Together . . . but Now I Don’t Feel That There Are Jews and Arabs . . .”: Palestinian Families in Israel Migrating in Search of Work

Meler

2017

Journal of Applied Social Science

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Internal migration tendencies among Palestinian in Israel are limited by both internal and external barriers. Recently, however, it appears that many Palestinian families have migrated from the north of Israel southward to Beersheba in search of work. This article is based on qualitative research I conducted among Palestinian women in Israel who moved south because of economic and occupational hardship. These women find themselves tending to their households while living far from their families of origin and those of their husbands, confronting and adjusting to their new environment and coping with life in a “city of difference” in Jewish space and among the Arab-Bedouin population at work. Internal migration affects many areas of life, extending beyond the personal and family sphere to challenge the politics of expanse in Israel, which is grounded in segregative and exclusionary principles and blurs accepted lines in the Israeli educational system. This situation generates space for new dialogue, or alternatively delineates lines of separation and structures new urban and cultural segmentation processes. The article sheds light on the complexity of the nationalist-ethnic triangle that takes shape in cities and clarifies the women’s experiences as they cross spatial and national borders—an unusual experience in Israeli life.

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Higher Education and the Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel

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The urban geopolitics of neighboring: conflict, encounter and class in Jerusalem’s settlement/neighborhood

The urban geopolitics of neighboring: conflict, encounter and class in Jerusalem’s settlement/neighborhood

Inequality in the Ivory Tower: Sub-Representation of Arab Citizensin Israeli Universities

“. . . In the Beginning I Was Frightened, Because Jews and Arabs Were Living Together . . . but Now I Don’t Feel That There Are Jews and Arabs . . .”: Palestinian Families in Israel Migrating in Search of Work

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