Migration, Ethnonationalist Destinations and Social Divisions: Non-Jewish Immigrants in Israel

Bartram, David

doi:10.1080/17449057.2011.570985

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“…Zionist organisations provided financial and political support to build agricultural settlements or Moshavim over Palestinian villages [Tzfadia and Yacobi, (2011), p.67]. The agricultural sector is seen as essential to the identity of the Israeli state and, like in Canada, is protected through extensive subsidies and regulatory benefits (Bartram, 2011).…”

Section: Israel's Foreign Worker Program In Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The construction and agriculture industries continued to pressure the government, even filing a lawsuit alleging the government had failed its responsibility to ensure labour supply by closing the borders (Bartram, 2011). The Israeli Government finally instituted a formal expanded foreign worker program in the early 1990s.…”

Section: Israel's Foreign Worker Program In Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, there were concerns based on the failure of guest worker programs in Europe and the likelihood of labour exploitation, wage depression, and weakening of organised labour. Several MPs pointed out the failure of the guest worker program in Europe and the risks of it creating a permanent population of non-Jews, which would threaten citizenship laws (Bartram, 2011). The Foreign Worker Law was passed in 1991 [Foreign Workers Law, 1991;Drori, (2009), p.49].…”

Section: Israel's Foreign Worker Program In Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Confronting myths: agricultural citizenship and temporary foreign worker programs

Venkatesh

2019

IJMBS

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This paper provides a conceptual intervention through an analysis of the myths surrounding agricultural citizenship and migrant work that underlie the temporary foreign worker program in two settler countries: Canada and Israel. The paper offers a brief insight into the ideologies around farm work that informed the colonisation and dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the expropriation of non-citizen labour. It begins with a historical overview of how agriculture was used as a tool of colonisation even as settlers struggled to cultivate Canadian lands because of the seasonal nature and the persistent lack of labour. From the time of Confederation, agriculture began to be intimately tied with immigration policies culminating in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) that persists to this day. The paper then expands the analysis to Israel to show how other settler nations have also followed similar ideological and policy trajectories. The paper illustrates how racial capitalism intertwines with settler colonial practices discursively and institutionally through immigration policies.

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Section: Israel's Foreign Worker Program In Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Israel's Foreign Worker Program In Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Israel's Foreign Worker Program In Agriculturementioning

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Confronting myths: agricultural citizenship and temporary foreign worker programs

Venkatesh

2019

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“…Once Israel sealed the borders to Palestinians during the 1988 civil uprising ( Intifada ), Israeli employers demanded workers to replace time‐sensitive agricultural and construction workers. Manpower firms quickly realized the potential profitability and pressured the government to supply a steady stream of foreign workers to fill a variety of low‐paid, low‐prestige jobs rather than modernize conditions or make jobs more appealing to Israelis (Bartram ). Israel may also have contracted with migrants to weaken the Palestinian hand in negotiations (Raijman and Kemp ).…”

Section: The Israeli Casementioning

confidence: 99%

“Here One Moment… and Gone the Next?” Remittance as a Social Visibility Tool

Harper¹,

Zubida²

2016

Sociological Inquiry

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Human labor is as much an export as any good. Remittances are a critical source of income for left‐behind families and communities. Transnational labor migrants often describe themselves as ‘invisible’: neither present in the lives of left‐behind families nor members of the receiving community. Building on social remittances literature, we argue that remittances serve as a remedy for this ‘invisibility.’ Through analysis of interviews with 26 temporary labor migrants from 11 countries resident in Israel, we find remittances can render migrants visible to transnational families and provide identity benefits to labor migrants. If visibility benefits decline because of familial role changes, reduced value as a remitter, cost exceeding benefits or because contracting partners change, remittance practices will change. Contrary to previous literature, our findings show that remittances decisions are dynamic, revealing why remittances practices change and even cease. Findings have implications for understanding the multibillion‐dollar remittances industry and immigrant incorporation.

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“…In other words, it was proposed not as something exceptional, but as a natural right of every Jew in the world (Al Haj, 2004). The essence of returning is reinforced in the language as well: instead of using the term 'immigration', the word 'ascent' (Aliyah) is used (Bartram, 2011). And for those who leave the country, a derogatory term "yordim" is used.…”

Section: Immigration and Integration Policy And Its Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“When in Rome, do as the Romans do”: what makes Hungarian Jews stay in or leave Israel?

Surányi

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Migration, Ethnonationalist Destinations and Social Divisions: Non-Jewish Immigrants in Israel

Cited by 11 publications

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Confronting myths: agricultural citizenship and temporary foreign worker programs

Confronting myths: agricultural citizenship and temporary foreign worker programs

“Here One Moment… and Gone the Next?” Remittance as a Social Visibility Tool

“When in Rome, do as the Romans do”: what makes Hungarian Jews stay in or leave Israel?

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