In search of work: Palestinian women in Israel migrating to Beersheba

Meler, Tal

doi:10.1080/13668803.2019.1679720

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“…Young Arab women face more barriers than men in integrating into the higher education system or labor market. As young women, they are even less exposed to Jewish culture and to a mixed (gender/ethnic) environment ( Meler, 2021 ). Similarly, from Lubna’s words we learn about her dealing with the crossing of ethno-national and spatial boundaries, and how this manifested in practice when she left home for the first time for a course with norms foreign to Arab women, and with a schedule intensive in many respects: social, physical, intellectual and personal-emotional.…”

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“…Indeed, in the last decade there is a growing trend of Arab women who have chosen to cross spatial and ethno-national barriers in pursuit of employment in their field of training ( Abu-Rabia-Queder, 2017 ; Popper-Giveon and Keshet, 2020 ; Meler, 2021 ; Sa'ar and Younis, 2021 ; Meler and Benjamin, 2022 ). Negotiating the crossing of boundaries improves their chances of better integrating into quality jobs in the public sector in mixed workplaces, thus they insist on claiming their belonging and their rights, despite signs of non-belonging ( Abu-Rabia-Queder, 2017 ; Popper-Giveon and Keshet, 2020 ; Meler, 2021 ; Sa'ar and Younis, 2021 ; Meler and Benjamin, 2022 ).…”

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“… 1 The research participants are all Israeli citizens and identify themselves as Arabs and not as Palestinian-Arabs, therefore to indicate their identity I use the term “Arab women in Israel” or “The Arab society” as they expressed themselves, and not as I have done in other studies ( Meler, 2019 , 2021 ; Meler and Benjamin, 2023 ) where the participants defined their identity as Palestinian-Arabs or Arab-Palestinian. …”

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“I represent the police I represent the state” – Justification work following ethno-national boundaries crossing among Arab female police officers in Israel

Meler

2023

Front. Sociol.

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IntroductionIn recent decades, Israel’s public sector diversity policy has led to the recruitment of many Arab female police officers (FAPO). For Arab women, joining the police force is seen as boundary-crossing, highlighting the tension between their professional, civilian, and ethno-national identities. While they are Israeli citizens, Arabs are often perceived as an unassimilated minority due to nationality, religion and culture. Arab women face numerous obstacles in integrating into the broader labor market, both from the state and their own society. Therefore, entry into the public sector, like the police force, is of great significance. However, some may view joining the Israeli police as cooperating with the majority-hegemonic group or even as betrayal.MethodQualitative, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 27 FAPO employed by the Israel Police asking how they articulate the ethno-national identity complexity in their pursuit of quality jobs in the Israeli police force, and how they justify dealing with the challenges this presents.ResultsThe analysis sheds light on the interviewees’ subjective perspective of their recruitment to the police force, i.e., the ways they experience their crossing of ethno-national boundaries and the conflictual identity experience inherent in the process.DiscussionThese insights offer a better understanding of the FAPO’s experiences regarding their justification work while facing criticism and value conflicts. The contributions of this study are threefold: 1. It advances the literature on the labor market integration of Arab women from the theoretical perspective of boundary-crossing. 2. It adds to the theory of boundary-crossing in the labor market for minority women in distinct locations. 3. It provides insights into the subjective perspectives and experiences of FAPO, contributing to organizational knowledge about minority policing in a deeply divided society characterized by tense relations between the minority and the police.

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“I represent the police I represent the state” – Justification work following ethno-national boundaries crossing among Arab female police officers in Israel

Meler

2023

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“…As some researchers have shown, Palestinians who live in the city per se remain socially, politically and economically connected to their relatives and communities in their original towns, inter alia through circular mobilities between these locations (Blatman-Thomas, 2017). This is true for a range of urban types, including Jewish and Historic Cities (Yiftachel, 1999;Blatman-Thomas, 2018;Meler, 2019). The incentive to stay connected to the hometown transcends cultural ties and is intertwined with the realization of rights by Palestinians in Israel, which at times necessitates this regional urban life (Blatman-Thomas, 2017).…”

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THE PRESENCE OF THE ABSENCE: Indigenous Palestinian Urbanism in Israel

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Sabbagh‐Khoury²

2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This essay puts forward a theoretical framework for Palestinian Indigenous urbanism. It argues that the specific and diverse expressions of this urbanism are partly an outcome of the fact that Palestinian cities—as a modern urban form—predate the Zionist settler colonization of Palestine. We centre the longue durée of Palestinian urbanism as a constitutive mode for contemporary experiences of Palestinian citizens in Israel and link it to Israel's persistent attempts to erase the urban landscapes of Palestine, symbolically and materially. We discuss how the de‐urbanization of Historic Palestinian cities in Israel since the beginning of the Nakba has drastically changed the urban and rural landscapes of these cities, ultimately leading Palestinians to adapt, develop and create new forms of urbanism in and around cities. Although Palestinians live in very different types of cities today, Palestinian urbanism broadly manifests as a presence of the absence, namely as the recursion of pre‐1948 urban life. Thus, in this essay we provide a new lens through which to understand Indigenous urbanism as a recursive and relational anti‐hegemonic structure that predates and can outlive settler‐colonial violence.

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“…In earlier articles (Meler, under review), I noted the gender-related changes and family unit reshaping that affected Palestinian-Israeli families who had moved to Beersheba. Similarly, studies discussing women’s migration in societies with a collective familial ethos (see, for example, Çaro, Bailey, and van Wissen 2012; Chan and Dorais 1998) noted that migration often brings about potential for changing family and community status.…”

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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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In search of work: Palestinian women in Israel migrating to Beersheba

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

“I represent the police I represent the state” – Justification work following ethno-national boundaries crossing among Arab female police officers in Israel

“I represent the police I represent the state” – Justification work following ethno-national boundaries crossing among Arab female police officers in Israel

THE PRESENCE OF THE ABSENCE: Indigenous Palestinian Urbanism in Israel

“. . . 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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